[Gllug] spam

[Martin A. Brooks]

On 08/08/2009 17:56, James Laver wrote:
>> Well, yes, good point but it stops them forging my address (and those
>> of other adopters) without it being verifiable.
>>      
> But more importantly, helps combat botnets of compromised windows
> machines sending spam.
>    

I think the sending OS  isn't that important.  If anything a compromised 
Linux box is probably _more_ dangerous than a Windows one.

> My gmail account gets in the region of 10k a day spams, I used to use
> it a lot of places because the spam filtering was good enough that I
> didn't care.
>    

Wow, I deliberately go out to collect spam on my gmail account and I 
barely get more then a few hundred a day.


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