[78174] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: AOL scomp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. Dreger)
Thu Feb 24 14:48:54 2005
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:45:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.org
In-Reply-To: <20050224184620.F1C6E180F@testbed9.merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:46:20 -0500
> From: andrew2@...
> I see the same thing. At least 2/3rds are spam forwarded along as
> described above. I have to give some credit to AOL WRT handling that
> type of situation -- they're much better than MSN/Hotmail who do not
> have a whitelist or feedback loop and simply stop accepting mail for
> 12+ hours from any server that reaches a particular spam threshhold.
We now refuse to forward mail that's almost certainly spam. Users may
POP it, but forwarding is out.
Jared [if you're listening], care to provide an "scomp POC"-type
database on puck?
Eddy
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Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked.
Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter.
