On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 17:49 +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > To get its house in order, a mailbox provider needs to know how many > messages its users send, how many are reported as spam, and how many > actually are spam, me think. In addition, since email addresses are the > most widely used means of identification, mailbox providers could > provide a tighter control than ISPs.
I don't understand the logic of this. If a spammer is using an inbound mailbox as a contact point for spam, which is clearly a violation of the TOS of most mailbox providers, then this will get back quite quickly to the apropriate mail admins. The way spam gets sent out these days pretty much defies the kind of neat statistical record-keeping that you're suggesting. Spammers seldom send spam from the same servers on which they receive replies. Most spamming involves hacks, intrusions, spoofing, viral infections and the like. The only thing I have in place which is close to this is for mailing lists which FMP hosts. If an AOL or Earthlink customer hits "Report spam" (or whatever the button is called) on their proprietary mail readers, then I, personally, get an email from AOL's abuse reporting system which gets shunted into automated processing and the complaining subscriber is unsubscribed from the list and a notice of same sent to the list administrator. The offending emails aren't spam, just complaints from people who don't want to take the time to go through the proper procedure to unsubscribe from an opt-in list. -- Lindsay Haisley | "UNIX is user-friendly, it just FMP Computer Services | chooses its friends." 512-259-1190 | -- Andreas Bogk http://www.fmp.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
