[79359] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: botted hosts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Mon Apr 4 16:21:54 2005
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:16:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
To: Dave Rand <dlr@bungi.com>
Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>, Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <m1DI8nr-008hFMC@rdaver.bungi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Dave Rand wrote:
> The problem has always been that ISPs do not see any tangible benefit to
> stopping spam *leaving* their networks.
And just what blacklists work to detect spam in outgoing email?
Spam leaving the network is stopped as soon as abuse complaints roll in.
This is a tremendous exaggeration. Most networks spend a lot of time and
money dealing with abuse on their network. "no tangible benefit", indeed.
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