[SpamCop-List] Re: Open Proxy SCBL Rules

[Bert Driehuis]

K. Crocker wrote:

> Thanks for your comments, although most of the spam that makes it 
> through the gauntlet above into my mailbox comes from China, Korea, 
> France, Brazil, and Russia. From USA residents (I can't bring myself to 
> call them citizens), most likely, from USA machines, no.

The machines that do the final drop are zombies. They are controlled 
from the USA, by and large. That simple act of controlling the spam run 
(in other words, choreographing a mass unauthorized computer breakin 
abroad) is easy to determine for an ISP with a suitable legal document 
in hand. My point is that if the government is serious about making a 
dent in illegal spam, they could actually act on the data that people 
have offered them based on honeypots. My observation is that the US 
government is not taking this constant barrage on computer security 
serious. My recommendation is that they should.