[LINK] Novarg / Mydoom / Shimg worm update

[Howard Lowndes]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:50, Dr. Bob Jansen wrote:
> At 8:04 AM +1100 29/1/04, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> >  The message said that the .pif file attached was disallowed and 
> >dangerous.  good advice, good server behaviour.
> 
> Good advice up to a point, after several such notifications, I'm 
> getting annoyed, it's not as if I can do anything about the emails as 
> they come from other systems that have harvested my address. I now 
> have set up specific rules to trash all emails containing an 
> attachment with matching three letter file type.
> 
> This also brings back to mind my laughter at Bill Gates' boast about 
> stopping all spam in two years (why wait all this time since his 
> software is responsible for most of the problem anyway). I read 
> yesterday that one of his 'solutions' involved the recipient computer 
> sending the originator a puzzle which only a human could solve and 
> waiting for the correct response before forwarding on the email. This 
> would triple volumes of email, the original, the challenge and then 
> the response. So, email volumes would triple, that seems like a 
> sensible solution.

This was only one of three suggestions he made.  One of them involved
micropayments, which I guess is the actual one that Billie Boy is really
interested in.  So, put up a suggestion that will triple net traffic,
have it knocked back and hence the others look more promising.  Very
cunning.

> 
> bobj
> 
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