So many misconceptions, so little time...
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 05:22:47AM -0500, Cris Daniluk wrote:
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} You assume an ISP would do this. Really? That's an awful lot of work for
} something an Inbox filter would stop. And what's to stop someone from buying a
} static IP from their ISP with its own lovely domain and spamming the world
} freely?
The terms of the contract they sign with the ISP that gives them the
static domain. The same thing that eventually stopped Samford Wallace
(which is a vast oversimplfication, but...).
If the ISP is a spambone, it can easily be blocked. (One of the only
useful features of iemmc.org was that you could block it because you
knew it was all-spam-all-the-time.) If the ISP is responsible, the
spammer gets shut down.
} Or relaying off of some server 2 thousand miles away that doesn't
} block relays?
ORBS. And convincing admins to shut down their open relays.
} Some mail servers cant (for example sites like yahoo.com who
} have mail gateways... by the way, about 50-60% of spam I receive comes from
} "trusted" mail servers on mail gateways like this).
I *really* doubt this. The spam may *say* in the From: line that it's
from @yahoo.com, but you can't trust anything in a spam. The only
things you can trust are the entries in your logs and the few lines of
the header that your own qmail puts there. Most spam that I get from
bogus @yahoo.com and @hotmail.com addresses are actually sent via
relay rape of machines having nothing to do with yahoo or hotmail.
} More and more spammers are
} putting "ADV:" in their topics as is required by law and more and more are
} also sending "To be removed" messages.
There is no national law on spam.
} While the to be removed messages don't
} really work half the time, I think it is safe to say that a well constructed
} message filter could be made to block these out, if not on the MUA level, on
} the mail server level.
What they do when you reply to one is show the spammer that your
address actually works. That's valuable information to them, and
insures that you'll get more spam.
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