Kenneth Porter wrote: > > Will ISP's do anything? Are they doing anything now for outbound spam? > They will have to otherwise they will end up in a blacklist ;-) Most of the ISP's here are already scanning on inbound spam, not too hard to do it for outgoing then. The ISP I use the most reacts quite fast on abuse. And they have already used an automatically shutoff of clients in the time of virus outbreaks, that traffic got detected and then all you could access was 1 page with an explanation how to get connected again. That's doable too by counting the amount of outgoing spam I think.
> BTW, are there any SMTP providers operating independent of ISP's, sorta > like independent newsgroup providers, so that one can use authenticated > SMTP over the submission port to that provider instead of one's ISP? > Yes, the ones who I know about offer anti SPAM/virus services. We've used cleanport for a while for that. It wasn't authenticated but firewalled, SMTP was only opened up for certain IP-addresses of ours. Regards Menno -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-changes-would-you-make-to-stop-spam----United-Nations-Paper-tf2035870.html#a5636668 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users forum at Nabble.com.
