Re: [anti-spam-wg] Any suggestions about how to deal with non co-operative ISP's and RIR's ?
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From: peter h peter@localhost
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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:44:35 +0200
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 10.09, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> tp said:
> > - ISPs generally do not care since it does not cost them, in fact spam makes
> > them money whereever they charge by volume (eg on dial-up lines charged by time)
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> Rubbish.
Thats a broad generalization :-)
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> Inbound spam costs far more in email processing systems than you could
> possibly make on the dialup lines.
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> Outbound spam hurts your reputation and, even if it doesn't go through your
> mail system, tends to imply a heavy user who costs you in terms of
> bandwidth and transit charges.
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> Both forms cost you time and effort for your abuse team.
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> No sensible ISP likes spam.
We are talking about the "non-sensible ISP's" here, the ones that don't
care about abuse-reports, those that only cares about the money the spammer
pays. In short, the scums of the trade.
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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. )
