And they all must vote Forza Italia, I suppose?
Even so this guy provides the basis for a brilliant idea: every
spammer *must* use a hotmail.com address, so you don't even have
to look at the Subject to determine the nature of a message: the
from-address will do, and SMTP has hold of this.
(I grew up in Italy so I speak Italian) I tried to explain to Cappato
what could be blocked using SMTP, including the concept of the "NO
UCE" SMTP Banner, but halfway into it I realized it was all going way
over his head. Cappato says that every day he logs on to his Hotmail
account and he sees the system has automagically filtered most of the
junk into a convenient junk folder - so he says "what's the problem".
Explaining that all of Europe's ISPs and corporate mail servers don't
work like that, and that Hotmail has a dedicated group of anti-spam
staff doing it is no use - he says all European ISPs must provide the
same. Not even explaining that spam-filtering is a delicate balancing
act that can occasionally block legitimate emails is any use.