In message <B4F614073A647F4DAC7F5E4BE6E9EEF70328FA(a)w2kmail.bits.co.nz>, Carl Black writes:
basically they pay individuals $usd1.00 per hour they leave their PC available as a SPAM relay - at ~$8700 a year,
If you read the Slashdot discussion (and the website carefully) you'll see they are claiming they'll pay US$1.00 per hour of CPU time. Spam delivery is hardly CPU bound. A bunch of idiots will probably sign up thinking they're going to get thousands of dollars a year; even on the face of it they'll get hundreds at most. And I'd say it's better than even money they won't get anything -- rule #1: spammers lie. Given the number of zombie mail relays "administered" by people without the clue to manage a machine on the Internet I'm not sure that someone offering to pay for them is going to make a whole of difference to the volumes of spam. Ewen
I haven't read slashdot...but this sounds like a good way of getting a good source of spam for bayesian classification - you don't need to deliver it do you ? :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ewen McNeill" <ewen(a)naos.co.nz> To: "Carl Black" <CarlB(a)bits.co.nz> Cc: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [nznog] $1 a CPU hour to send SPAM
just another data mining facility/trojian type thing... after reading their smallprint... Upon registration, all users grant to SENDMAILS CORPORATION their explicit permission ... ... (3) to access and use the Installed Computer(s) for domain name resolution, and (4) data gathering activities, without further notice to or permission from Member. The users have the option to choose not to be contacted or their information shared by terminating their account. SENDMAILS CORPORATION collects online behavior statistical information for our members. Examples of information that we collect, other than through the registration form, include URL of visited pages, registration for offerings and IP addresses. Examples of data gathering activities include web page retrieval, domain tld discovery, and internet port/proxy discovery. Upon termination of the online session, closing of the browser and/or termination of your membership, this information will no longer be collected. Surely there must be a law governing this, however I suppose if someone was to accept their terms then they willingly open their PC up for 'data gathering activities' Kind Regards Dan Clark Network Manager Scarfies.Net Ltd ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Spooner" <jbs3(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> To: "Ewen McNeill" <ewen(a)naos.co.nz> Cc: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [nznog] $1 a CPU hour to send SPAM
I haven't read slashdot...but this sounds like a good way of getting a good source of spam for bayesian classification - you don't need to deliver it do you ? :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ewen McNeill" <ewen(a)naos.co.nz> To: "Carl Black" <CarlB(a)bits.co.nz> Cc: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [nznog] $1 a CPU hour to send SPAM
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:54:54PM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
In message <B4F614073A647F4DAC7F5E4BE6E9EEF70328FA(a)w2kmail.bits.co.nz>, Carl Black writes:
basically they pay individuals $usd1.00 per hour they leave their PC available as a SPAM relay - at ~$8700 a year,
If you read the Slashdot discussion (and the website carefully) you'll see they are claiming they'll pay US$1.00 per hour of CPU time. Spam delivery is hardly CPU bound.
Even if my mailserver is an Apple ][? :-) Richard
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