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Major ISPs Publish Anti-Spam Best Practices

Posted by michael on from the rules-to-live-by dept.

wayne writes "The ASTA, an alliance of major ISPs, has just published a set of best practices to help fight spam. The list of ISPs include the likes of AOL, Yahoo, MSN/Hotmail, Earthlink and Comcast. The recommendations include such things as limiting port 25 use, rate limiting email, closing redirectors and open relays, and detecting zombies. For details, see the ASTA Statement of Intent (pdf) or any of the ISP's antispam websites."

2 of 252 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Best practices,... published? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes. There's one going around now titled best practices to help fight spam Delete that one right away.

    But be sure to verify your Paypal information, that one's legit.

  2. Re:Best practices,... published? by WormholeFiend · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you ever seen any GOOD spammer behavior?

    As a matter of fact, yes.

    Some of them retire.

    Or die.