ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam

Hank Nussbacher hank at efes.iucc.ac.il
Thu Aug 10 08:20:58 UTC 2006


At 04:02 PM 09-08-06 -0500, Michael Nicks wrote:
>I've had a a situation in the past that required this same application. I 
>ended up using amavisd-new with custom views for incoming and outgoing 
>mail. For spam originating from inside, it was dropped completely, for 
>spam originating from the outside, subject was rewritten.

This is just an SMTP solution and has no applicability to the problem at hand.

Thanks anyway,
Hank Nussbacher
http://www.interall.co.il


>Hope this helps.
>-Michael
>
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>Hank Nussbacher wrote:
>>Back in 2002 I asked if anyone had a solution to block or rate limit
>>outgoing web based spam. Nothing came about from that thread. I have an
>>ISP that *wants* to stop the outgoing spam on an automatic basis and be
>>a good netizen. I would have hoped that 4 years later there would be
>>some technical solution from some hungry startup. Perhaps I have missed
>>it. What I have found so far is:
>>Detecting Outgoing Spam and Mail Bombing
>>http://www.brettglass.com/spam/paper.html
>>SMTP based mitigation - thing on HTTP/HTTPS
>>Stopping Outgoing Spam
>>http://research.microsoft.com/~joshuago/outgoingspam-final-submit.pdf
>>Research paper - nothing practical
>>Throttling Outgoing SPAM for Webmail Services
>>http://www.ceas.cc/papers-2005/164.pdf
>>Research paper - nothing practical
>>ISPs look inward to stop spam - Network World
>>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2004/071204carrispspam.html
>>Bottom line - no solution
>>So I am trying once again.  Hopefully someone has some magic dust
>>this time around.
>>Thanks,
>>Hank Nussbacher
>>http://www.interall.co.il
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