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Problem with your 'Solution'

Problem with your 'Solution'

Posted May 6, 2004 23:28 UTC (Thu) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
In reply to: Problem with your 'Solution' by fergal
Parent article: 82% of email is spam

> Why do you think ISPs will keep their spam spotting software right up to date when even today we still encounter the trivially fixable problem of open relays?

Because they'd enter blacklists if they don't.


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Problem with your 'Solution'

Posted May 7, 2004 8:19 UTC (Fri) by fergal (subscriber, #602) [Link]

Are you suggesting we would have blacklists for ISPs that don't keep their spam filters up to date?

How exactly would you keep that blacklist up to date? Wouldn't you have to aim spam probes at various ISPs and see if they block them. Good luck with that project.

Problem with your 'Solution'

Posted May 17, 2004 11:50 UTC (Mon) by coolian (guest, #14818) [Link]

The original "IM2000" guy is obviously a hard-core democrat. I'm no Republican, but this "legislate my butt out of existence" and "trust the ISP not to go down" thing is WAY too much trust for me.

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