Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:46:20 -0500 From: andrew2@...
I see the same thing. At least 2/3rds are spam forwarded along as described above. I have to give some credit to AOL WRT handling that type of situation -- they're much better than MSN/Hotmail who do not have a whitelist or feedback loop and simply stop accepting mail for 12+ hours from any server that reaches a particular spam threshhold.
We now refuse to forward mail that's almost certainly spam. Users may POP it, but forwarding is out. Jared [if you're listening], care to provide an "scomp POC"-type database on puck? Eddy -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita ________________________________________________________________________ DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: davidc@brics.com -*- jfconmaapaq@intc.net -*- sam@everquick.net Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter.