>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.
On 29.08.13 16:06, Lindsay Haisley wrote: >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. That is why it's a good idea to require authentcaton and limit addressess people may use in from: at ISPs and mail providers. I think it is better to handle issues of users who pay for e-mail than anyone who gets to ISPs network via open proxy, open wi-fi or hacked computer, wi-fi etc.. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. "Where do you want to go to die?" [Microsoft] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
