Comments on: Gates promises to Can SPAM http://www.p2pnet.net/story/630 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:19:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/630/comment-page-1#comment-130 Reader's Write Tue, 27 Jan 2004 06:35:00 +0000 #comment-130 Take these two together: "Virus-writers appear to have teamed up with spammers to create a 'zombie network' of broadband PCs around the world which are used to push out spam" and "the computer sending the message to do a simple computation [...] easy for a machine sending a few e-mails, but expensive and difficult when dealing with lots of spam." This isn't going to work, is it... The zombie network can do the calculations easily enough. jiri@baum.com.au Take these two together:

“Virus-writers appear to have teamed up with spammers to create a ‘zombie network’ of broadband PCs around the world which are used to push out spam”

and

“the computer sending the message to do a simple computation [...] easy for a machine sending a few e-mails, but expensive and difficult when dealing with lots of spam.”

This isn’t going to work, is it… The zombie network can do the calculations easily enough.

jiri@baum.com.au

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/630/comment-page-1#comment-129 Reader's Write Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:10:02 +0000 #comment-129 It is cute but wrong to show a picture of Hormel's canned meat product to represent unsolicited e-mail. I don't represent Hormel in any way, but they have been very clear that unsolicited e-mail should be called "spam," in lower case, and in no way associated with their food. It is cute but wrong to show a picture of Hormel’s canned meat product to represent unsolicited e-mail. I don’t represent Hormel in any way, but they have been very clear that unsolicited e-mail should be called “spam,” in lower case, and in no way associated with their food.

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