ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam

Suresh Ramasubramanian ops.lists at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 01:39:23 UTC 2006


On 8/10/06, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
> Shouldn't most of freemail/webmail services be doing their own outbound
> spam and virus checking now?

Yes, Sean - they are.  But it is far, far more productive for the
source of this abuse to be choked off.  Call it the difference between
using mosquito repellant and draining a huge pool of stagnant water
just outside your home.

srs

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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)



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