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Re: Problems sending mail to yahoo?


From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:59:38 +0530


1. They are not complaints as such. They are what AOL users click report spam on

2. They are sent in a standard format - http://www.mipassoc.org/arf/ -
and if you weed out the obvious (separate forwarding traffic out
through another IP, and ditto for bounce traffic), then you will find
that - for actual ISPs - actual spam reports will far outweigh the
amount of misclicked reports.

3. As I said, its in ARF and that's machine parseable and you can get
stats from it.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Geo. <geoincidents () nls net> wrote:
 When someone like AOL offloads their user complaints of spams to all the
abuse@ addresses instead of verifying that they actually are spams before
sending off complaints, is it any surprise that everyone else is refusing to
do their jobs for them?

 The reason abuse@ addresses are useless is because what is being sent to
them is useless.


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