[112423] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul M. Moriarty)
Wed Feb 25 22:57:31 2009
From: "Paul M. Moriarty" <pmm@igtc.com>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0902251725oe9e347md9d3d940ac0127f3@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:57:18 -0800
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: pmm@igtc.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Feb 25, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I realize this is easier in theory than practice but I wonder how
>> much
>> better the whole AOL (et al) spam button would get if they ignored
>> the
>> spam button unless two (to pick a number) different customers clicked
>> the same sender (I know, forged sender etc but something like that)
>> as
>> spam in a reasonably short amount of time like an hour or a day at
>> most.
>
> .. and you think AOL doesnt track these? Come on, barry - try to give
> large mailops shops with massive userbases some credit for clue level.
> You have all the clue in the world but you dont even begin to guess
> at the firehose AOL / Yahoo / we etc have to deal with. Or what we
> routinely do, as a matter of best practice.
>
Whenever I see the words "best practice" I find my self wondering,
"Best for who?"
