> A better question: how can anybody NOT?
If you want to run a mail SERVICE then you need to provide the ability to
send and recieve mail to/from anyone anywhere. Sure, if you can catch a
spammer then block it. But by your OWN ADMISSION flitering the bad guy
rarely works. They just change who/how they sent it and you are back at
square one. (See below)
> 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.
I have a priets with a cc'ed list of church information... he is a
spammer?
> 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.
Basically we have learned that mail.com dosen't know what it is doing.
And that you make be on that same path. If you want to stop spammers,
take them to court. Filtering e-mail just pisses the rest of us off. If
you are serious about protecting your network resources then ACTUALLY FIND
THE SPAMMER, and sue them. It's actually pretty easy. They usually give
you the address or phone number you can use to get in contact with them.
