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Re:Most of the Amazon SES IP blacklisted by SpamCannibal by jrockway on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @08:08PM (#7631279)
But that means for every legitimate mailing list you're on, you get one spam. And you lose the legitimate mailing list just because their token got compromised.

Dunno, I feel like we should just charge for mailing lists too. Or use usenet!

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Re:Most of the Amazon SES IP blacklisted by SpamCannibal by wpietri on Thursday April 24, 2014 @02:18AM (#7638754)
If I can get it down to one spam each time a mailing list server is compromised, I'm ok with that.

Even with a charging scheme, some spam will still happen. Give the amount of BTC stolen so far, and given the number of compromised computers that could be used to generate cash, looks like there will be plenty of money to spend on sufficiently profitable spam.

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