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ISP Chief on Spam

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

saddlark writes "internetweek.com has another article about spam and false positives. They've talked to Barry Shein, president of The World (the worlds first dialup ISP) - someone highly affected by spam. Quote: We're victims of crime, and nobody gives a damn. That's a nice feeling -- your business is being pounded into dust by criminals, and people say, `Live with it,' Shein said." ISPs have it pretty bad since their SMTP servers are often being hijaaked to send email that nobody wants. As annoying as spam is to us (113 messages so far today!), it's even worse on that side.

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  1. Re:live with it indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yea, live with it because SMTP is a UNIX technology and we all know how good Open Source technologies are. We have this problem because some UNIX fool decided that email should operate exactly like regular email...as a global IN BOX. Now, we're trying to fix this damn problem UNIX caused. Just like NFS, it's broken too.

    Nah, just live with it...open source is always right. Jerks. :[