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82% of email is spam82% of email is spamPosted May 8, 2004 17:13 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: 82% of email is spam by rgoates Parent article: 82% of email is spam It seems to me that that doesn't have to be done with a complex inter-ISP system. It can be done within each individual ISP (and I thought they were already doing it). I believe the vast majority of the world's email accounts are within giant ISPs. If we can filter spam from giant ISP users, the spammers will give up. So why isn't it working? Is it technologically infeasible? Are big ISP customers not availing themselves of the filtering?
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82% of email is spam Posted May 15, 2004 17:00 UTC (Sat) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] Big ISPs never look at the content of what they are transmitting, lest they lose their common carrier status. Also, the tinfoil hat crowd claims that the big ISPs make good money on spam so it's not in their best interest to stop it.
spam filtering by ISPs Posted May 15, 2004 17:19 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] We may be using different definitions of ISPs; I believe this thread is about providers of email mailboxes. AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Earthlink, ... I know these guys filter spam based on content. I see it in my own Yahoo mail account, and Earthlink advertises it. So why is spam still effective? Are they not filtering enough? Are users opting out?
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