[43981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wojtek Zlobicki)
Mon Oct 29 16:33:34 2001
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From: "Wojtek Zlobicki" <wojtekz@idirect.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:32:03 -0500
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> Hi, Bob? This is Susan. I haven't received a reply from you regarding
the
> email I sent yesterday, did you get it? You didn't? Hmmm. Let me try
> resending it.
>
> Hi Bob? This is Susan again. Did you get that second email
> yet? No?! Maybe you should call your ISP to find out why! Yes, I
> already called mine, they don't have any info, they say the mail server
> logs show that both the messages were delivered to your ISP.
>
> Hi, Mr. ISP support guy? This is Bob. It seems that I'm not getting all
> of my email....
> ......................
> Collateral damage IS a problem, but that's part of why it works to reduce
spam.
There are ways to get around this. I participated in a Brightmail beta
sponsored by @Home for two of my personal email accounts. All my "filtered
mail" was not deleted but moved to some other mailbox. I had the ability of
logging in periodically and seeing what mail was caught as spam. False
positives were easy to eradicate (a click or two), one mailing list I was on
was caught as spam and less than 24 hours after submission, mail was flowing
properly again. I post with my personal email address (without
modification) on Usenet so I get a fair share of spam (20-30 pieces or more
per day among a few of my email accounts). Brightmail was a godsend, I am
willing to live with a few false positives and not have to deal with
hitting delete 20 times.
