Re: Current status?

In article <gad5rp$25e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Johnny Billquist
<bqt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I just totally hate ISPs that block port 25. The less I have to deal with an
ISP, the better my life works. They are *clowns* and I for one am not interested
in letting them handling my mail traffic if I can avoid it.

I agree that some ISPs, with incompetent support folks, are a pain.
From time to time, I've considered changing ISPs, but the main reason I
don't is that something won't work (some port blocked etc) after the
change and that I can't even find out beforehand if there will be a
problem.

Spam is definitely a scurge, but letting the ISPs get monopoly on mail is not
the solution.

And as others have pointed out, the fact that a whole bunch of ISPs now block
port 25 haven't reduced spam one bit.

Yes it has.

Don't kill the messenger when the message
is junk. Find the originator instead. That's where your problem is, and that is
where you need to apply the fix. Otherwise the spammer will just continue,
finding new ways of spreading their junk.

The way the spammers work these days is not by sending many messages
from one machine (in that case, just block the rapid-fire senders of
email), but rather by writing viruses which infect PCs and send a few
messages from millions of PCs. It is often difficuult, if not
impossible, to find the spammer, and even if one does, he might be
beyond legal jurisdiction.

I agree that, if caught, spammers should be severely punished. However,
realistically, one can't catch most of them.

Jail them. Confiscate their money and their business. That would stop spam. Not
much else will.

Yes, good idea, but in most cases it doesn't work in practice.

.

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