[SpamCop-List] Re: turning spammy servers off

[N. Miller]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:42:46 -0400, Pop wrote:

> "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
> news:42E775E9.A88EBB45 at spamcop.net...
>> Ivan Leo Puoti wrote:
>>>
>>> Quite a few servers are just desktops of some sort 
>>> infected with netbus and the like, a simple way
>>> to stop them from being used as spam servers is to 
>>> nmap them to find the trojan the spammer used,
>>> get the client, log onto the machine and disable the 
>>> smtp server, and if possible the trojan server
>>> itself. I know people will answer with stuff like 
>>> "it's illegal you'll go to jail it's immoral blah
>>> blah blah", but it will seriously piss off the 
>>> spammers, and if the ISP cares about reports they'll
>>> get their customer to clean the computer properly 
>>> anyway.
>>
>> More likely, they'll tell you "by the time you've 
>> gone through all of
>> that work to shut down one trojanned system, two more 
>> will be created".
>>
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>>
>>
> 
> But only two will exist, not three:  That's a 33.3% 
> reduction.

That's the trouble with statistics. You can make up any that suit your
purpose!  ;)

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