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Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting
From: Bill Woodcock <woody () zocalo net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 13:23:28 -0800 (PST)
Mike Leber <mleber () he net> writes: > Using "ask to be taken off their list" as an indicator indicates > a naive understanding of how serious spam servers (for lack of a > better term) operate. > The primary reason that a well written spam includes a way "to > get off the list" are it gives recipients an action to take, > thus reducing complaints. > You can ask to be removed from the scam artist's lists all you > want, but you will never be removed from the spam server's > master list. I can confirm this. The reply-to address of a good deal of the spam out there is <someusername>@domain.com, the example address, so the "remove-request" just gets a reply from the example address mailbot and is then trashed. We're currently seeing about 20mb/day of these misaddressed remove-requests. -Bill - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting, (continued)
- Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting Barry Shein (Jan 20)
- Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting Paul A Vixie (Jan 20)
- Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting Mike Leber (Jan 20)
- Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting David Schwartz (Jan 20)
- Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting Howard C. Berkowitz (Jan 20)
- Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting Philip J. Nesser II (Jan 20)
- Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting Paul A Vixie (Jan 20)
- Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting Philip J. Nesser II (Jan 21)