At 3:04 PM +0000 3/6/03, Tom Thomson wrote:
Doing that we can end up with a clear view of which ISPs will deal with spam
complaints effectively and which won't. Probably the next stage is
blacklists - if an ISP is unwilling to deal with spam it's prohably because
he sees it as to his commercial advantage to allow it, and blacklisting will
make him useless to all his customers (whether spammers or not) so he'll
pretty quickly change his ways.
What you are describing is exactly the situation now. The message
headers indicate the originator of the email by IP address. When you
report the email, the ISP terminates the account if they are
responsible and doesn't if they are not. The ISP doesn't need to log
message-ids, the received headers contain all the necessary
information for them to map back to the sender.
At one point WorldCom reportedly had over 100 people doing nothing
but dealing with spam complaints. And on the other side of the
fence, I haven't noticed the ISP 163.net in China going out of
business just because they are a major source of spam.
PS. Could someone tell me why there are these Chinese ISPs that use
numbers like 163 an 263 as their names? Is there some significance
to the numbers?
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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