Of course.  Use sense in determining if it's spammy or not -- it's easy
enough to do. If an ad talks about "bulletproof hosting", and use of
anonymous proxies for their SMTP traffic, or offers direct-to-MX sending,
those are spam features.

--j.

Sietse van Zanen writes:
> Why does this have to be spammers call?
> There are loads of legit uses for bulk e-mail.
> 
> A member of my family runs an Internet advertising company, which specializes 
> in for instance opt-in bulk mailing.
> For example, small company, which hosts two servers and has 4 employees need 
> to reach 20.000 customers with news about their products. Clearly, they don't 
> have the capacity or expertise to arrange the bulk mail themselves. they hire 
> another company to do that for them.
> 
> -Sietse
> 
> 
> 
> From: Justin Mason
> Sent: Tue 12-Dec-06 18:22
> To: Jean-Paul Natola
> Cc: Giampaolo Tomassoni; users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: This seen on Dice 
> 
> 
> Jean-Paul Natola writes:
> > From: Philip Prindeville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Any takers?  ;-)
> > > 
> > > http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=1102&op=5&type=14&docke
> > y=xml/7/a/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&bb=0&source=15
> > 
> > Aaaah! I need a telecommuter and I don't even know what's it...
> > g
> > Maybe they are setting a trap for spammers?
> 
> I doubt it -- I've seen quite a few postings advertised in the past
> (a couple of years ago, elance.com had loads -- search for "bulk mail"
> as the obfuscatory keyword, or "bulletproof hosting").
> 
> If anyone has the time, it might be worth seeing if it's possible
> to get job boards to take down spammer listings...
> 
> --j.

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