Bill Becker wrote:
>
>On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
>
>>Personally, I'm wondering when/if spammers have sued their ISPs for
>>having an AUP that disallows spam.
>>
>
>They could do that only with an inept ISP. Most US ISP agreements will
>say somewhere that either party can terminate the agreement at any time,
>for any reason, or for no reason at all. A bad ISP agreement could be a
>problem i suppose.
>
>And there *were* such problems in the US in earlier days. The infamous
>CyberPromo had a T1 from an NSP back in 1995, and they used it to spam for
>quite a long time. Probably the NSP (Sprint?) could not terminate the guy
>because of his contract. Who would have thought (then) that someone would
>get a T1 and use it to spam? Absurd!
>
>BTW -- Most people back then thought spamming would go away when these
>fully-connected spammers lost their T1s. Let that be a warning to those
>who think the closing of open relays and the passing of laws will do it.
>
>Spamassassin is the right approach.
>
At the risk of issuing a "me too" post, let me chime in and say that
laws will not stop spam; the provable harm occurs at the ISP mail server
level, and then is an aggregation of a lot of spam. Closing open relays
will not stop it, unless all ISPs are "well-behaved" and block outbound
port 25 except to their own mail servers. (This is a bad solution, BTW;
I run my own server off a cable modem and would hate to see this
happen.) Filtering spam at the server level is the best approach. There
have been plenty of ineffective anti-spam products for Windows; none of
them seem to work. The kind of cooperation we get here on SpamAssassin
is, in my view, *absolutely necessary* to fight spam; it reacts quickly
to new types of spam and to new spammer counter-measures. I really don't
see how a commercial, closed-source product could compete.
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