10 Sep
2002
10 Sep
'02
4:23 p.m.
<herecy> Or unless we design a network which does not rely on good will of its users for proper operation. </herecy> --vadim On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
Most spam-fighting efforts on the technical side make the basic assumption that spam has similar characteristics to a properly designed TCP stack - that dropped/discarded spam-grams will trigger backoff at the sender. Unfortunately, discarding a high percentage of the grams will trigger a retransmit multiple times.
Spam is likely going to be a problem until we either hire some thug muscle from <pick ethnic organized crime group>, or the government does it for us...