Re: OT: offending sig + headers
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On Friday, May 18 at 11:54 AM, quoth Jeff Macdonald:
>> is that it's one of these anti-spam measures that only work until
>> it gets widespread enough for spammers to decide to do something
>> about it (they own enough always-on Windows spam-bots after all,
>> it's not like they're too short on resources; not retrying is just
>> laziness on their part).
>
> Having to queue messages should end up using the 'owned' box's disk
> space and slow down the sending rate. I would hope that would draw
> attention to the owner of the box.
HEH, I think that's probably wishful thinking. When I think about my
grandmother, who uses the computer to type up the occasional letter
and keep track of who lives in what room of the retirement home she
volunteers for, I have trouble imagining her taking much notice of the
disk being a few gigabytes more full, or the computer being a bit
slower to download all the Windows updates than it was the last time
(it's not like she sat through that download the last time anyway).
Or did you have some other "typical user" of an always-on infected
Windows box in mind?
~Kyle
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