Joe makes some excellent points. I have started to use the Spamcop
service to help get abuse reported through the right channels. I suspect
that it doesn't actually shut many people down, but it does help
increase awareness of open proxies and other misbehaviors.
When medical spam comes in
Hi Folks,
Someone on the cybertelecom list raised a question about the real costs of
handling spam (see below) in terms of computer resources, transmission,
etc. This dovetailed a discussion I had recently with several former BBN
colleagues - where someone pointed out that email is not a very
While the question (metrics for operators, backbone-to-retail, spam) is
current in the asrg list, the question is posed by (informally) by the
(outgoing) secretary of the ICANN Registrar's Constituency to a listserv
in the AOL playpen. The question is not current in the Registrar's
Constituency,
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Since a lot of the arguments about spam hinge on the various costs it
imposes on ISPs, it seems like it would be a good thing to get a handle on
quantitative data.
While there is a cost to ISPs reguarding spam, the highest cost is still
on the recipient. End User's who are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Bates) writes:
While there is a cost to ISPs reguarding spam, the highest cost is still
on the recipient. End User's who are outraged by their children getting
pornography in email, or having trouble finding their legitimate emails
due to the sheer volume of spam
Since 00:00 (EST)
1 ACL from_senders_bogus
1 ETRN Mail theft attempt
1 ACL mta_clients_relay
1 SMTP Exceeded Hard Error Limit after RSET
1 ACL mta_clients_onedict
2 SMTP Exceeded Hard Error Limit after MAIL
4 ACL mta_clients_senders_regexp
4 SMTP
We're not ARIN members so I can't post to arin-discuss - thought someone
here might be able to help me out
Can anyone explain to me why the ARIN IPv4 Issued statistics, e.g.
http://www.arin.net/statistics/index.html#ipv4issued2003, do not seem to
match up with the stats available from
on 6/18/2003 9:51 AM Miles Fidelman wrote:
Someone on the cybertelecom list raised a question about the real costs
of handling spam (see below) in terms of computer resources,
transmission, etc. This dovetailed a discussion I had recently with
several former BBN colleagues - where someone
value is dependant on the individual. Unfortunately, end user's cannot
just highlight and hit delete on spam. They must look at almost every
Isn´t highlight and hit delete exactly what has been implemented since
Mozilla 1.3 and works with almost perfect accuracy after you give it a few
dozen
Just to continue the discussion of the RIAA
oriented Laws, and how they seem to supersede
American Constitutional rights
Haven't these people heard of Multi-User
Systems ?
Excerpt:
Senator: Trash illegal downloaders' PCs
Petri Helenius wrote:
Isn´t highlight and hit delete exactly what has been implemented since
Mozilla 1.3 and works with almost perfect accuracy after you give it a few
dozen messages to build up the good and bad database with?
Actually, I find that 1.3 and 1.4 still have issues with determining
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 17:09, Jack Bates wrote:
The worst part of it is that spam is quickly becoming unreadable,
so that legitimate emails that are readable are the emails more likely
filtered.
-Jack
On the upside, this means replacing the spam filter with a spell checker
will move us
Actually, I find that 1.3 and 1.4 still have issues with determining
spam. While fairly decent, one still has to go through looking for false
positives. The other issue is that spammers have been doing a good job
at designing emails to fool filters. I'm starting to see more and more
spam
Jack Bates wrote:
Petri Helenius wrote:
Isn´t highlight and hit delete exactly what has been implemented since
Mozilla 1.3 and works with almost perfect accuracy after you give it a
few
dozen messages to build up the good and bad database with?
Actually, I find that 1.3 and 1.4 still have
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Miles Fidelman wrote:
It occurs to me that a lot of people on this list might have that sort of
quantitative data - so... any comments?
Regards,
Miles Fidelman
For my little corner:
http://mrtg.snark.net/spam/
It seems 1:1 is the norm these days, at least at my
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