[91628] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Simpson)
Wed Aug 9 12:06:57 2006
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:02:58 -0700
From: Ken Simpson <ksimpson@mailchannels.com>
To: Matthew Black <black@csulb.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: Ken Simpson <ksimpson@mailchannels.com>
In-Reply-To: <web-9649558@remus.csulb.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Maybe I'm just an ignorant e-mail postmaster. I thought that
> nearly all e-mail was (E)SMTP-based (LMTP excepted).
>
> If it doesn't use the SMTP protocol, it's not reaching any
> mailbox. HTTP is a web browser protocol. WebMail gets converted
> by the web server and is subsequently routed using SMTP.
I think he's talking about blog spam, which is definitely submitted
over HTTP.
Regards,
Ken
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