[NTLUG:Discuss] the breaking point of spam

[Neil Aggarwal]

Carl:

We are a small ISP.  We enforce our AUP very strongly
and do not have a spam problem.

I have not encountered an ISP outside the US that takes
spam as a problem.

Some ISPs in the US are very good.  This is mostly the smaller
ones.  I have worked with several of them that changed their 
reverse DNS schemes to better accommodate our filtering.

Most ISPs in the US (especially the larger ones) try to make an 
effort but are ineffective because they cannot police their 
network with the manpower allocated to the task.  This is an 
allocation problem. If they want to offer email services, they 
need to make sure to allocate proper resources to policing it.

Thanks,
	Neil

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discuss-bounces at ntlug.org 
> [mailto:Discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf Of Carl Haddick
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:03 AM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] the breaking point of spam
> 
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:52:45AM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> > Richard:
> > 
> > I have been running a spam blocking service for almost 5 years
> > now.
> > 
> > ISPs do not see spam as a problem they need to fight.  Almost 
> > all of our spam reports fall on deaf ears.
> > 
> 
> Try working for an ISP, either large or small, if you really believe
> ISPs don't mind spam, or if you are one of those loonies who 
> think ISPs
> either invite spam or profit by it.
> 
> If you're a small ISP, you won't have the manpower to groom 
> the mail the
> way you would like, and if you're at a large ISP, you have a 
> spam-target
> painted on your back.
> 
> Spammers are the enemy.  If you don't like ISPs, don't use 
> them.  Email
> still works without ISPs, by the way.  Just hit 'print' instead of
> 'send', and use a special attachment - it glues on, and costs just 39
> cents... :-)
> 
> Carl
> 
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