Once the pandora's box of stepping on protocols to favor another is open, it can't be shut. This sends a great signal to carriers that they'd best not fool with consumer access. Be a good carrier; don't mess with protocols to favor your own perceived traffic. Controversial no doubt; a good one this time, IMHO.
This box you speak of has been open a long time. Prime evidence is port 25 shenanigans and other anti-spam measures, and there are others.
Is it just me, or is the BSA mail discussed here a classic spam run? First scour sites for hits on anything that might remotely look like a reason to send the message, then send an impersonal, blatantly commercial email to the administrative address(es) of those sites. Walks like a duck...
-wdb
Don't you think it's -totally- unfair that Al Gore lost the presidency to a bunch of little dots of paper, especially seeing as how he invented the Internet?
"[...] 98% of the DNS queries at the root level are unnecessary. This doesn't even take into account the 99.9% of web pages suck or are unnecessary anyways."
Don't forget to factor in 'bots, which comprise maybe 75% of all web traffic. It's a self-sustaining system; in fact it may well behoove the likes of Sun to crank up a few thousand automated crawlers, just to tweak the numbers higher still.
In virtually every MUA I've ever seen it is trivial to limit the addresses that can send to group lists. F'rexample there are only two addresses in my company that can send to all@. If spammers can hit your all@ address, someone needs to whap your mail admin with a clue.
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Once the pandora's box of stepping on protocols to favor another is open, it can't be shut. This sends a great signal to carriers that they'd best not fool with consumer access. Be a good carrier; don't mess with protocols to favor your own perceived traffic. Controversial no doubt; a good one this time, IMHO.
This box you speak of has been open a long time. Prime evidence is port 25 shenanigans and other anti-spam measures, and there are others.
rgds,
-wdb
Is it just me, or is the BSA mail discussed here a classic spam run? First scour sites for hits on anything that might remotely look like a reason to send the message, then send an impersonal, blatantly commercial email to the administrative address(es) of those sites. Walks like a duck... -wdb
Don't you think it's -totally- unfair that Al Gore lost the presidency to a bunch of little dots of paper, especially seeing as how he invented the Internet?
"[...] 98% of the DNS queries at the root level are unnecessary. This doesn't even take into account the 99.9% of web pages suck or are unnecessary anyways." Don't forget to factor in 'bots, which comprise maybe 75% of all web traffic. It's a self-sustaining system; in fact it may well behoove the likes of Sun to crank up a few thousand automated crawlers, just to tweak the numbers higher still.
In virtually every MUA I've ever seen it is trivial to limit the addresses that can send to group lists. F'rexample there are only two addresses in my company that can send to all@. If spammers can hit your all@ address, someone needs to whap your mail admin with a clue.
-wdb