RE: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick

2005-02-04 Thread Ian Mitchell
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:31:50 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick Why would the ISP do this? To protect themselves from being sued by the spam recipients' ISPs. The Laws in the State of IL include exemptions of liability to the ISP

RE: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick

2005-02-04 Thread James Ebright
: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick Why would the ISP do this? To protect themselves from being sued by the spam recipients' ISPs. The Laws in the State of IL include exemptions of liability to the ISP that transfers the email and places the liability of SPAM on the original

RE: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick

2005-02-04 Thread WBrown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/04/2005 11:08:55 AM: Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:31:50 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick Why would the ISP do this? To protect themselves from being sued by the spam recipients' ISPs. The Laws

Re: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick

2005-02-04 Thread Ben Kamen
I thought the definition of ISP was somewhat flexible in the definition as a remedy for people who do service their own email and such... (i.e. I hold/service email for more than 1 domain. I think the language could be interpreted in such a way that it would make me an ISP because of the

Re: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick

2005-02-04 Thread WBrown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/04/2005 03:49:08 PM: I thought the definition of ISP was somewhat flexible in the definition as a remedy for people who do service their own email and such... (i.e. I hold/service email for more than 1 domain. I think the language could be interpreted in

RE: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick

2005-02-04 Thread James Ebright
Actually, read it, any business or individual with a mail server basically is entitled to file proceedings under the canned spam act. If you have your own OC3 and mail server(s) then you certainly are eligable. And, as I mentioned before.. the canned spam act supercedes ANY state laws. VA and

Re: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick

2005-02-03 Thread Ben Kamen
I would think ISP's would want a greylisting filter on their inbound-outbound ports... But with my recent experience with my local ISP (SBC) proves to me (since I directly asked the half a dozen or so SBC tech rep's on the line if anyone knew anything about TCP/IP - no from all) I doubt if

RE: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick

2005-02-03 Thread Paul Murphy
Ben wrote: I would think ISP's would want a greylisting filter on their inbound-outbound ports... If the spam is coming from their legitimate customers, and is indistinguishable from normal mail, this will add nothing and annoy their customers, especially when those using Outlook Express

Re: [Mimedefang] ZDnet article on new Zombie Trick

2005-02-03 Thread Ben Kamen
Paul Murphy wrote: Ben wrote: I would think ISP's would want a greylisting filter on their inbound-outbound ports... If the spam is coming from their legitimate customers, and is indistinguishable from normal mail, this will add nothing and annoy their customers, especially when those using