Messages in this thread |  | | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Subject | Re: News gateway problem | Date | Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:04:18 -0500 (EST) |
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From: Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> > > Richard Gooch: >> over a month). Friends, if you can spare a minute, please >> send a "please don't spam" message together with a uuencoded >> copy of /usr/bin/emacs to the follow addresses: > > No! Do _NOT_ mailbomb. Ever. It doesn't help, and it will disturb > other people.
You are a kind person, but this is the Internet. It is unfortunate that mailbombing is often the only solution, and it _does_ work. It is of course best to try more peaceful means first.
Without mailbombing, many irresponsible sys admins ignore the problem. I am sorry that it is needed, but mailbombing works because it disturbs other people. An irresponsible sys admin will only terminate an account when that account affects the ISP so much that the other customers leave.
Mailbombing changes the sys admin from "We do not restrict freedom of speech or filter content." to "The account is GONE!!! Leave me alone!!! There will be no more spam from here!!!"
In the case of a professional spam ISP, the mailbombing has to be severe enough to clog the network feed. It is the only thing that always works. (it really does affect them too)
Mailbombing hint: Send many small messages with different "From:" lines. Professional spam sites drop attachments in the bitbucket automatically and only keep one mail with a given "From:" line. Mangle the headers just like they do and keep the message small.
ObLinuxKernel: can we hack mailbomb code right into the TCP/IP stack? It would get better performance than a normal program. :-) Maybe the code should open millions of connections from a whole 8 bits worth of IP addresses, then just leave the connections open. It could send a few characters slowly to stop any timeout.
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