RE: [Asrg] Please critique my anti-spam system

["Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan at verisign.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asrg-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:asrg-bounces at ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> Seth Breidbart
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 1:23 AM
> To: asrg at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Asrg] Please critique my anti-spam system
> 
> 
> "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan at verisign.com> wrote:
> >> From: asrg-bounces at ietf.org 
> [mailto:asrg-bounces at ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> >> Seth Breidbart
> >> "Michael Kaplan" <mkaplansolution at lycos.com> wrote:
> 
> >> > Let's do the math.  A spammer finds 5% of his spam 
> reaches people.
> >> Way high.
> >
> > Define reach. Hit the disk or eyeball? Sorry if I'm behind here.
> > I think MORE reaches people.
> 
> Hits the eyeball, since disks don't buy stuff.
> 
> We'd have to get good estimate from someplace like AOL.
> 
> Also, a lot of place block at the IP level, so the spam never gets in
> to the spambox in the first place.
> 
> Seth

I think a lot depends on what your provider or company does
and who your upstream is although no blocking is taking place
at tier 1 as far as I am aware.

I'm not up on local provider methods anymore, but I'd think AOL
vs. Hotmail would be interesting.


-M<


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