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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. Bad solution by Dan+East · · Score: 1, Redundant

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=97313&cid=8317 030

    All a spammer has to do is send spam on the behalf of companies that are not their customers and there would be no way to know which merchants should be prosecuted. Spammers muddy the water as much as possible - that is their entire means of survival.

    Dan East

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    Better known as 318230.