Re: regarding spam...

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

This could be simplified if smtpd daemons would log such information as
number of send To's, Cc's and Bcc's.  Counts, not all addressing would 
be a good alerting mechinism, a heads up to the admin to peek further
for possible action.  Then an administer could parse a logfile to
determine possible spamming

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Crispin Cowan wrote:

[SNIP]

> If there was a product that such large providers could deploy at their 
> gateway that filtered *outgoing* mail, and the only thing it did was to 
> bounce a copy of suspected outgoing spam back to the senders inbox, then 
> a spammer's inbox would fill to bursting almost immediately, and the 
> provider could lock out their account from sending any more mail until 
> the issue was resolved.

[SNIP]

> I know: this requires very low margin providers to expend more effort, 
> and we already know that they don't put much effort into spam fighting. 
> This egress filter proposal is an attempt to minimize their effort 
> required for effectivenss, and thus hopefully reduce their costs in 
> dealing with spam cleanup efforts, e.g. the thousands of complaints that 
> pour in after a large spam incident.
>
> Presumably some of the readers out there are in companies in the content 
> filtering business. Consider this a product opportunity.


Thanks,



Ron DuFresne
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