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Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet
From: Brian Murrell <Brian_Murrell () bctel net>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 02:36:07 -0800 (PST)
As enscripted by Kevin Smith:
Any email...even regular questions/replies....I think specific types of email would be more appropriate..."spam","obscene" etc.
Kevin, We meet again. The circles certainly seem small at times. I question your comments regarding AT&T Worldnet's announcement. I read it as clearly stating that _any_ mail (not limited to spam or obscene, etc.) being relayed (not to or from an AT&T Worldnet customer) will not be delivered by AT&T Worldnet's mail servers. I have three things to say, each from a different point of view. 1. As a frequent recipient of spam delivered by AT&T Worldnet: it's about time. See number 2. 2. As above and a proponent of the open Internet: Yay, another provider taking control and repsonsibility for their participation in the Internet. 3. As a system admin at an ISP: I don't blame 'em. I have investigated methods for doing this myself and will be proposing early next week that we take the same measures. Nobody has an obligation to relay any mail for any other body on the Internet. If more mail servers on the Internet took these measures, the level of spam would come down due to the easier job of finding the real point of origin of the spam. Take care Kevin, b. -- Brian J. Murrell Brian_Murrell () bctel net BCTel Advanced Communications brian () ilinx com Vancouver, B.C. brian () wimsey com 604 454 5279 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet Jonathan Clark (Mar 28)
- Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet Kevin Smith (Mar 28)
- Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet Brian Murrell (Mar 29)
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- Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet Jonathan Clark (Mar 29)
- Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet Lon R. Stockton, Jr. (Mar 29)
- Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet Brian Murrell (Mar 29)
- Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet Kevin Smith (Mar 28)
- Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet Paul R.D. Lantinga (Mar 28)
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- Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet Scott Bradner (Mar 29)
- Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet Michael Dillon (Mar 29)
- RE: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet Dave O'Shea (Mar 29)