[152006] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The day SORBS goes away ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TR Shaw)
Sat Apr 7 19:41:43 2012
From: TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20352.49461.630910.651396@world.std.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 19:41:07 -0400
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On Apr 7, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
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> Something I'm considering is just limiting the max size of an email
> from Yahoo severely, enough to say "I've changed my address from yahoo
> to _______".
>=20
> We get pounded day and night with multimegabyte (per each) spam emails
> from them.
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> Yahoo isn't the only one but the most frequent.
As for Yahoo, the problem will probably go away on its own over time. =
The problem with companies that are in questionable/bad financial shape =
is that they defund many activities that do not seem important but =
actually are. These, such as abuse handling, will actually cause them to =
increase their spiral down by causing more customers away.
Another item of interest is that Yahoo says they will only accept ARF =
(RFC-5965) reports to "abuse@" However, they reject all ARF abuse =
reports just like the plain text ones. So much for standards support....
As an aside, one can not/will not/may not block all their mailservers =
but I would suggest blocking all mail that contains their shortener, =
y.ahoo.it. It is highly abused and they don't respond to abuse reports =
on it either.
Its a real shame that the original high quality search engine/company =
that everyone aspired to be on has fallen so far both financially and in =
quality.
As for SORBS, most competent mail admins dropped its use a long time =
ago. I thought when Proofpoint took it over things would change (I =
actually thought they would dump the SORBS name because of bad karma) =
but it hasn't happened.
