"Christian" <myfirstnamehere.2007@xs4all.nl> wrote in
message news:4710c5b8$0$226$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl
: : : Did that last year. No spam yet. Would it even be an
: : : attractive prospect for spammers? Email spam can be
: : : delivered very quickly, phone spam would require much
: : : more time and bandwidth.
: :
: : Not sure if a spammer would care, if the software
: : taking care of calling SIP-addresses with pre-recorded
: : messages would run on a network of infected PC's
: : (botnets), like is currently the case with email-spam.
: : It might be that blacklists and greenlists are going to
: : be a necessary feature in future SIP-phones or with
: : SIP-providers :-(
: :
: : So far I haven't had any SPIT (that's what they call
: : it, I believe) on my numbers registered at e164.org
: : either.
: :
: : Christian

Let's put it this way - it's one of the main reasons Sipgate blocked calls
incoming from most other providers.


Ivor