[svlug] botnets

[Rick Moen]

Quoting David Rosenstrauch (darose at darose.net):

> I ask because from what I can see most of the spam I get still seems
> to come directly from dynamic IP's belonging to various ISP's - and
> not from their mail servers.

I can confirm from analysis of quite a few SMTP mail hosts that you are
absolutely correct.  It's not even just "most":  It's the overwhelming 
share of spam -- way, way over 90%.

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