Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 02:39:52 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Morsal Roudbay" <morsal@swipnet.se>, "J S" <spl1t_h0r1z0n@usa.net> Cc: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: [Re: spammers] Message-ID: <006a01c10ddb$435f4300$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010716093820.A25842@zigman.2y.net>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Morsal Roudbay > >ISPs dont bother much, been there, done that. Lousy solution. > Not true. The problem is that most people that file a spam complaint don't include headers. Secondly, most ISP's won't bother if they only get a single complaint because most spam complaints are bogus anyway. What the ISP's look for is a pattern - if they get 20 or more complaints from different people all on the same day all complaining about the identical piece of spam then they will investigate. But of course if all they get is one then they typically ignore it because most people that complain cannot read mail headers to determine the real injection point of the spam, so they end up complaining to the postmaster of the forged domain. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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