Spam off the menu for now

[Goz]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7725492.stm

Anyone noticed a reduction in spam?

[Mike Hughes]

Not really. As they say, any reduction wouldn't last for long. It seems the web hosting company was allowing gangs to control botnets via their servers. These guys are big business and there's no way they wouldn't have a fallback server in place somewhere.

The PCs in these botnets are dead easy to identify. I still think the best way to stop them dead is to charge the service providers for the spam as then they'll actually bother to get in touch with their customers and get the spam stopped.

Mike

[chris ashdown]

I brought a tin in Sainsbury's this week and they had plenty of tins left, maybe its just local

[Darren B]

LMFAO Very good Chris made me chuckle

[chris ashdown]

Make the customers pay for spam, thats my new get rich quick idea, anyone want to come in on the ground floor with me, I can supply both MU and Server just need help with clever marketing

[fergusw]

Make the customers pay for spam, thats my new get rich quick idea

Didn't you say Sainsburys are already doing this Chris?

On a serious note - the last point on the article is a startling one.

spammers manage to turn a profit despite only getting one response to every 12.5m emails they send.

Perhaps if it read "spammers do not make a profit" then it would stop. Cause and effect. Supply and demand. Market forces etc.

More education required.

I also think that ISP's should be held accountable to the "quality" of traffic flowing through them - tough one to manage though!

[kathynewman]

Make the customers pay for spam, thats my new get rich quick idea, anyone want to come in on the ground floor with me, I can supply both MU and Server just need help with clever marketing

Chris always looking for a new business idea - count me in - think that George was after something new to do recently as well so he may join us.

Wonder if the domain name spamulike is available

[chris ashdown]

Sorry Kathy

But I think your little furry friends would eat all the spam and then no profit

Oh well back to plan 103456721