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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."

4 of 252 comments (clear)

  1. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nothing more to say, yet.

  2. Re:Horse Balls by Aliencow · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We need anti first-post best practices !

  3. Re:Best practices,... published? by Samael_666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Security through obscurity is not the way to go if you ask me ...

  4. Re:Best practices,... published? by darxyde · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Case in point :

    http://antispam.yahoo.com/faqs#a10

    erm...

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    ($virtual, $domain) = split("@", $ARGV[0]);
    ($basename, $keyword) = split("-", $virtual);
    print $basename."@".$domain;

    nice one Yahoo... keep up the good work.

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    Hey relax fella, you need a rest, guy.