I am, as of now, speaking for nobody but my own fine self. If you
have any questions about Mail.Com's policies, regarding spam or
anything else, please direct them to the appropriate addresses at
Mail.Com.
Also, at this point this is really not even slightly qmail-related, so
here's my offer: those of you with something to say who feel you have
to say it in public, say it now. I won't answer any more questions on
the list after tonight. You can mail me privately if you like, but
you takes your chances just like everybody else if you do.
In the immortal words of Daniluk, Cris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> How on earth can you block based on volume?
A better question: how can anybody NOT?
Spammers can change their names, change their addresses, alter the
length and content of their mail, forge their headers, hide behind
proxies, register their assets in the Carribean, get sex changes and
crouch down behind shubberies, but there is one fingerprint they can
never, ever change: in order to have a prayer of making a profit, they
have to send out a lot of mail, really quickly.
If I see a host that I do not recognize appear out of the blue and
start pumping hundreds or thousands of messages an hour into my mail
server, the odds are pretty on that it's a spammer. If it's not, I'm
not averse to apologizing later on.
> I would rather delete 500 spam email messages than lose a SINGLE valid
> email.
That's a very noble goal, and it works fine if you've only got a
single mail server and a handful of users. You'll find that it
doesn't scale very well once you hit the dozens-of-servers and
millions-of-users mark. There comes a point (and it comes pretty damn
quickly, believe me) where you have to balance mildly inconveniencing
a few of your customers against royally pissing off a lot of them by
letting the spammers swamp your system to the point where it's of no
use to anybody.
No, it's not pretty, but of such compromises is the real world made.
-n
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