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RE: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Wouters)
Tue Feb 10 12:14:31 2004

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:13:40 +0100 (MET)
From: Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl>
To: David Luyer <david@luyer.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1BAD86FA20172C449C56A8E5D51977AB0140F8@pimel-mx1.ozpacnet.office.pacific.net.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Luyer wrote:

> Site Finder on its own added to spam; spam volumes increased as the number 
> of "sender domain does not resolve" bounces dropped away.  

That is a myth: http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/graphs/versign.png

If you want to blame spam on a single corporatin, the graphs clearly show
to blame microsoft. Besides, they have more money then Verisign anyway :)

Paul


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