[anti-abuse-wg] how to detect spambots - SPAMTrusted
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peter h
peter at hk.ipsec.se
Tue Mar 10 20:17:50 CET 2009
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 09.49, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:46:37PM +0100, Jan Pieter Cornet wrote: > > Definition, yes. UBE is usually easier to define and is practically > > equivalent to spam. But pretty much everyone recognizes a spam if they > > see one. It is therefore easy for a human to detect spam and take > > corrective action against a spammer or spamming host. > > This is actually *way* oversimplifying things. > > Some SPAMs are obvious, of course, but there is a wide area of "grey" in > between - some people send advertising e-mails that part of their > receipients find quite interesting (because the mails meet their interests), > while others consider them SPAM. I object to this view. UCE is always spam even if some recipients "think" they like it. Just look at all the suckers that get fooled by scams ! UCE or spam is illegal in some countries, however legal authorities does not seem willing to hunt and procecute. > > OTOH, we get SPAM complaints for info mails that people actually and > provably subscribed to(!) [commercial service, people subscribe, forget > about it, and later just report to spamcop instead of unsubscribing]. > That's a problem with opt-in lists too, but that is something list-owners has to adopt to. The general public should not be carrying the burden just because "it simpler for list-owners". Any sender of mail has to take it's own costs. > Gert Doering > -- NetMaster -- Peter Håkanson There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it again ... and again ... and again ... and again. ( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )
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