On Friday, July 2, 2004, 6:30:41 AM, AltGrendel AltGrendel wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:09, Jeff Chan wrote:
>> On Thursday, July 1, 2004, 6:32:12 AM, David Thurman wrote:
>> > On 7/1/04 8:19 AM, "jdow" wrote:
>> 
>> >> OK, what if a spam company trades publicly?
>> 
>> > Get them delisted ;)
>> 
>> Seriously, yes.  The more public a company is, the more they have
>> to lose by breaking the law.  Therefore public companies will
>> tend not to be spammers.  It's no guarantee of course, but
>> perhaps an increased probability.

> This is why you read about sub-sub-sub-contracting for this stuff. It
> give the public company the "plausible deny-ability" card. 

If a subcontractor is a spamhaus, their sending servers will
probably end up blocked on ordinary RBLs eventually....   QED

For SURBLs, which look at message body URIs, we need to minimize
collateral damage so that messages that innocently mention
mostly legitimate domains don't get blocked for mentioning them.

Jeff C.
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Jeff Chan
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