[Mailman-Users] The economics of spam

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Tue Dec 23 21:14:25 CET 2008


Barry Warsaw writes:

 > Bill the OS vendor of the infected machine. :)

In my case that was Linus and Debian, although the fault belonged to
the authors of Smail 3.1.100 who documented and parsed an option to
deny all forwarding, but didn't implement it.

And the primary maintainer of a piece of software which AFAIK
continues to be a source of backscatter might want to be a little
careful about suggesting that vendors be billed ....


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