[geeks] This is bad but tempting

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Wed Apr 21 10:02:36 CDT 2004


Tue, 20 Apr 2004 @ 09:44 -0700, N. Miller said:

> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:57:40 -0500, "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> said:
> > Am I the only one to whom this screams "SPAM FARM"?
> > 
> 
> It's occurred to me, that since all of the recent email worms have not
> had any destructive payload that they may well be research for 
> implementation of a distributed spam system...one in which it's very
> difficult to track the spammers since they are not the ones sending
> the spam.
> 
> Or am I just being paranoid?

That's an interesting idea.

Given how bold they are already, I don't see this as impossible.


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