Large ISPs ponder spam

Large ISPs ponder spam

Posted Jul 1, 2004 9:01 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670)
Parent article: Large ISPs ponder spam

As long as the end users install untrusted software / spyware, nothing
will be accomplished with the authenticated schemes. The spamming
software will just route the mail through the normal, authenticated,
channels. And then all your fancy signatures will be good for nothing.

What _could_ be done, is that ISPs could start to actually populate the
abuse departments again. They used to react to spam reports by shutting
down the abuser, but most of customer service is too expensive now. And
they could check out the ten och hundred users sending out the most mail
each day, see if it's spam, and shut down the abuser. The abusers are the
most expensive customers anyway, you don't want those on your net.

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