On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Terry Carmen wrote:
Small companies routinely get several hundred, up to several thousand
spams/day.
That's manageable, and a couple of orders of magnitude less than what
Alan gets.
I found the biggest improvement by blacklisting Korea and China.
Yes, that works pretty well. Nigeria and Brazil too.
Unfortunately, this still wastes my bandwidth.
To the point where you actually have to pay more money?
At some point in the world of spam, there is a network operator who has
allowed a spammer a connection. This may be an ISP, Network Provider or
simply an open relay. It really doesn't matter. The place where the mail
enters the netwok should feel pain for polluting our space.
Right; I agree. And there are ways to do that even now:
- Tempfail suspected spam until it is accepted or rejected by a
person. This works well for small organizations with spare bandwidth.
It won't work for large organizations, unfortunately, but if enough
small people do it, the open-relay or spam server will feel the pain.
Each recipient will pay for a little bit more bandwidth; the relay will
pay for a lot more bandwidth plus clogged queues.
- Litigate. The US is lawsuit-happy; even the threat of being sued
would probably make an ISP crack down on spammers or an open relay
mend its ways.
- Blacklist. If ISP's refuse to play ball, blacklist them.
--
David.
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