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AOL Blocking Spammers' Web Sites

Posted by Hemos on from the fighting-the-good-fight dept.

Nuclear Elephant writes "According to this article, AOL has decided to take a fresh approach to fighting spam and is now blocking the spammer's web address. The philosophy is, if the customers can't visit spammers sites, spammers will not be able to make any money. On a side note, I suggested this concept about six months ago but nobody thought ISPs would adopt it. Now perhaps we can get a group like NANOG interested in sponsoring a blacklist for spammer addresses?"

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  1. Re:Is this a *smart* idea? by beh · · Score: 5, Informative

    > They rely on content filters and their users determining if an email is legit or not.

    And - how would a content filter find out whether the content of the spam would actually try and sell the product listed in the spam, or whether it's advertising a product listed on the target server in the hopes that the target server gets blocked?

    You *can't* read the true motives of a spam out of its content...