> FYI, we've had quite a few reports of spammers sending to postmaster@
> accounts, apparently in an attempt to bypass filtering.

We're starting to see them sent to root@ also (as cc's).

> For example, if you run a business and
> advertise a sales@ address, how can you know that a reject was spam or a
> false positive?

And the problem for your customers is that they probably don't realize how
many orders they are not getting. They can't quantify it, because they don't
know what is being blocked.  And if they do sales to small business, those
are the ones most likely to get blocked when you drop all cable networks
(regardless of service class).  The small business in danger of going out of
business in this case is your subscriber, not the one on charter.net.  As
more people become aware of the problem such class blocking causes, one of
two solutions will prevail: all small subscribers will get the ability to
set up DNS (perhaps using dynamic dns?) or those who perform such blocking
will become second tier providers, suitable for home users and not business
(just as few serious businesses attempt to use AOL as their email provider
anymore).  Such a crude tool might be more suitable for free email accounts,
where people are more likely to accept missing a few emails in return for
free service and anonymity. At the same time, such services are more likely
to need to block massive spam loads, as users have less interest in keeping
their email addresses from being given out.

K

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