According to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, antispam fighters could really hurt the spammers bottom line, if they target the Web sites used to host their scams rather than simply trying to block the mail server used to send out unsolicited commercial e-mail.
“If there was more diligence in taking down the Web sites, that would have an effect on overall spam,” said Chris Fleizach, a research assistant with U.C. San Diego. “A lot of people using spam to advertise their sites aren’t well provisioned,” he explained, “so focusing on these bottlenecks would have a deleterious effect on the spam campaign.”
More on this research in a report by IDG News Service’s Robert McMillan here .
