RE: [cobalt-users] [isp-linux] Monkeys.com is down

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 9/25/03 3:16 AM, "Phil Beynon" wrote:
>
> > So if people want to damage a company all they now have to do
> is mass spam
> > californian addresses using genuine looking spoofed emails from
> a company
> > they are having a disagreement with and sit back and watch.
> > If some big corporate has pissed you off it could be worth
> buying up a CD of
> > email addresses just to tie up their legal team for the following few
> > months. Bet I won't be the only one to see that potential.
> >
> Phil
> Good points, and I know that many adult operators have rules and such on
> doing spam for sales, and others will allow it. As for the abuse
> of the law,
> I think most of these cases will be based on a pattern and not a
> random spam
> outburst (at least I would hope so). Still the idea that they want to go
> after the company /website that the spam leads to is a start in the right
> direction. Sort of the same way the police will do stings on johns and the
> drug user. Stop the source of the demand for market.
>
> So far with the use of spamassassin on our servers, we don't use the RBL's
> we have seen a dramatic lowering of spam. But still doesn't stop all that
> wasted bandwidth we have on our network.

David,
It depends who has to initiate the legal action against the spammer - if it
is all dealt with at the level of high jurisdiction / state level (being a
Brit I'm not sure of the accurate termininology here) then it will probably
be only people sending millions who ever get targetted. But if lawyers start
taking individuals who are receiving it on as clients on a no-win-no-fee
basis there will be whole sections of the public who are never going to have
to work again - Heck I could have easily made >$150,000 plus this week alone
at a $1000 a shot at about a 10% collection ratio!

Phil