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[Darien J. Watkins]

People pay money to send spam.... not recieve it.

If you want it blocked then you can charge for that too.


On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 03:02, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 22:22, Marvin Dickens wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 April 2004 21:38, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Rather than fantasize about murder - perhaps some of the programmers that
> > > brag about how good they are could impliment a solution.
> > 
> > The very nature of spam requires that it be stopped at the domain that it 
> > originates from. IMHO, there is no other way to deal with it. 
> 
> Which begs the question: Why are ISP's not at least doing a basic mail
> sent counter on their customers?  I'll grant the sorry scum who are
> creating spam have been using new worms to get other machines to do
> their dirty work for them. But some basic traffic accounting seems to be
> a good starting point. Then follow it with header checks to throw away
> the blatant spoofs.
> 
> It used to be if spam was received, the recipient could send it to the
> abuse at isp.com address for the first gateway machine in the headers. But
> the flood is so great that the ISPs can't sort the mail fast enough.
> 
> Grrrr. 
> > 
> > Best
> > 
> > Marvin Dickens
> > 
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