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Re: botted hosts


From: Dean Anderson <dean () av8 com>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:16:42 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Dave Rand wrote:

The problem has always been that ISPs do not see any tangible benefit to
stopping spam *leaving* their networks.  

And just what blacklists work to detect spam in outgoing email?

Spam leaving the network is stopped as soon as abuse complaints roll in.  
This is a tremendous exaggeration.  Most networks spend a lot of time and 
money dealing with abuse on their network.  "no tangible benefit", indeed.

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