AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

[Kevin D. Clark]

Jason Stephenson <jason at sigio.com> writes:

> Derek Martin wrote:
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> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:37:49AM -0600, Thomas Charron wrote:

> >>Oh my GOD man.  They rejected your SMTP email.  Shesh.  Since the
> >>protocol has no built in method of authentication, this is the best
> >>they can do.  You can either eat spam, or do something like this.
> > Or you can go after the spammers.  Which is the only right way to go
> 
> > about the problem.  Make spamming not worth the potential gains.  Fine
> > the bastards for every spam sent.
> 
> I'm not even going to touch this. There are actually more effective
> solutions. Law enforcement solutions are reactionary and generally
> counterproductive. It's better to just block IPs and work on improving
> spam filter software. Better user education is also required to help
> people identify and ignore spam.

I don't think that filtering is the ultimate right answer to stopping
spam (although I don't deny that this is a useful technique).  I spend
some time every day complaining about spam.  I don't do this just for
laughs -- I do this because I hope that I'm helping just eliminate
this crap.  I wish other people would do this too.

Spammers are like litterbugs.  When I see litter, I pick it up.  If I
see enough garbage, I complain.  If the spammer continues this
practice, and gets find and or imprisoned, I say that's a good start.
But I don't think that putting on rose-colored glasses and ignoring
the problem (filtering) is the ultimate right answer.

Regards,

--kevin
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