[91677] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Aug 9 21:39:53 2006
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:09:23 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: "Hank Nussbacher" <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0608091622350.530@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 8/10/06, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> Shouldn't most of freemail/webmail services be doing their own outbound
> spam and virus checking now?
Yes, Sean - they are. But it is far, far more productive for the
source of this abuse to be choked off. Call it the difference between
using mosquito repellant and draining a huge pool of stagnant water
just outside your home.
srs
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
