ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam

Wed Aug 9 16:22:05 UTC 2006

On 9-Aug-2006, at 12:02, Ken Simpson wrote:

>
>> Maybe I'm just an ignorant e-mail postmaster. I thought that
>> nearly all e-mail was (E)SMTP-based (LMTP excepted).
>>
>> If it doesn't use the SMTP protocol, it's not reaching any
>> mailbox. HTTP is a web browser protocol. WebMail gets converted
>> by the web server and is subsequently routed using SMTP.
>
> I think he's talking about blog spam, which is definitely submitted
> over HTTP.

I thought it was pretty clear that he was talking about e-mail spam  
submitted using HTTP to webmail services like hotmail, yahoo and gmail:

On 9-Aug-2006, at 11:11, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> I guess I wasn't clear enough in my first posting.  I am not  
> interested in smtp (port 25 spam).  We have that covered.  I am  
> only interested in blocking outgoing web based spam.  A user sits  
> and sends out spam via automated tools via Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail,  
> or whatever Webmail system where they have set up thousands of  
> throwaway users.

Blog spam is easily avoided by only ever using RSS and never, ever  
clocking through to read any comments :-)

Joe