Yeah, I wonder about that too. Probably for two reasons, mainly because they ARE the biggest spammers :-). There's money in it after all.... hehehehe
Mostly I'll bet that they have people watching for such activity in real time. And they can tweak servers constantly. I have to catch things after the damage is done. There has to be a better way. marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Rogato" <wi...@oregonfast.net> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 8:36 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff > How come Google, Yahoo, and Live.com don't get black listed. > I'm pretty sure 1 million times more spam comes out of those domains > than any small independent isp's ... > > > > Marlon K. Schafer wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> What are you guys doing for email these days? I LOVE my setup for it's >> reliability, ease of use etc. >> >> Hacked customer accounts and virus's are killing me though. We don't >> catch >> things until 100,000s of messages go out and we get black listed. This >> has >> now happened 3 or 4 times in the last couple of years. >> >> My server admins aren't coming up with a solution to this other than to >> limit cc's to 25 per message. We did that once before and my phone rang >> off >> the hook because people can't send jokes to their friends..... >> >> The other thing that makes it hard is that the log files that I get (up >> to >> 40 megs per day!) don't list the authenticated sender, only the reply >> address. So I see tens of thousands of messages from a user that's not >> even >> mine (faked info). sigh >> >> We use Courier MTA. >> >> My thought is to set the server to allow a max of 1000 messages per day >> per >> user. And to somehow make the log file ONLY send me the number of >> messages >> received per a user, and the number sent, user name and ip addy of all >> those >> sending. Twice now I've asked about that idea and gotten no response >> from >> the server admins. >> >> Suggestions? >> >> laters, >> marlon >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
