Re: [Asrg] Anti-spam laws do work, FYI. There's proof.

[Jim Witte <jswitte at bloomington.in.us>]

> unscrupulous person) using his legitimate SMTP account to send spam.  
> Larry
> is talking about armies of broadband enabled zombies that send direct 
> SMTP
> spam from their IP addresses over port 25 with it's own SMTP engine 
> (which

  It seems like there's an easier way to stop this than SPF and 
SenderID: simply implore ISPs to block port 25 on their customer's 
machines, unless the customer has a good reason to have it open.

> huge step forward.  Although the size of the step forward is 
> debatable, I
> think most of us agree that it is an important step forward worth 
> taking.

  Although SenderID may very well have other advantages that I'm not 
seeing - such as perhaps making the spammers afraid - people will be 
able to find them now (theoretically).

Jim


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