Re: UKNM: Re: marketing spam

[tristan]

Comment from an ISP,


Hi Steve - all.


I totally agree with this premise about the economics of it meaning its

difficult to stop at source.  Because we are a dedicated hosting company

that supports email services rather than an access company that can easily

block forwarding et all from non client users we have/ had the problem that

many of these 'products' list our mail servers as a relay. In order to

survive we HAD to develop a system to eliminate them.


Some half a million spams a day are directed at us, so we developed a

system that filters mail and destroys them.We estimate that we junk over

90% of them.


It can be done - its just tough. The downside is though that the rest of

our legitimate users suffer delays of up to 20 minutes when sending /

recieving mail through us. In the past we would bounce mail straight

through.


So my premise is that SPAM also effects the efficiency of the very system

that the Spammer relies on, and ultimately if the volume continues to

increase at the current rate all (most) mail servers will need to filter in

this way so eventually the system may become useless to all, or worse

slower than conventional mail.


<g> I wish I didn't care about old fashioned net usage morals, because if I

didnt then you would be recieving tons of SPAM urging you to send me

money....</g>


Everyone needs to help find another way to mass advertise or one day it wil

just clog.


Best regards all


Tristan Palmer



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