Fighting a spam fire with a DDoS
Jeremy Turner
jeremy at linuxwebguy.com
Wed Dec 1 13:40:25 CST 2004
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:20:22PM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
> The fatal flaw in this logic is that, most spammers
> are using other peoples 0wn3d boxes and thus there is no
> cost to them.
Of course, if the zombie computers attract too much attention from the
ISP in terms of bandwidth or such, the zombies could be shutdown that
way. Not nice, but effective.
I couldn't get to the initial article. That said, a solution like
sa-exim's teergrubing isn't a bad idea either.
Jeremy
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