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Re: boycotting peers (was Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william () elan net>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:58:25 -0700 (PDT)
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, J.D. Falk wrote:
On 07/09/05, Todd Vierling <tv () duh org> wrote:(I may believe in the principles here, mind you, but I'm far to small to make a point. A workable net-boycott absolutely requires that action be taken by a non-castrated 800lb gorilla.)Boycotts worked great back when spammers were stationary and users were more complacent, but spam sending techniques have evolved a lot in the past ten years.
A lot of them are still stationary. You may see lots of traffic comingfrom spam proxies but these are all controlled by farms of servers and ISPs hosting these farms know what these servers are for and let it be.
They are just happy they don't get reports about it any more and their hosting of such customers can be hidden and behind the scene ... -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william () elan net
Current thread:
- Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID Rich Kulawiec (Jul 06)
- Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID Jason Frisvold (Jul 06)
- Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID trainier (Jul 06)
- Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID Todd Vierling (Jul 09)
- boycotting peers (was Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID) J.D. Falk (Jul 09)
- Re: boycotting peers (was Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID) Todd Vierling (Jul 09)
- Re: boycotting peers (was Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID) william(at)elan.net (Jul 09)
- Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jul 09)
- Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID Todd Vierling (Jul 11)
- Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jul 11)
- Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID Todd Vierling (Jul 09)