The biggest problem now what spammers are that they are using legitimate
domains and spoofing real email address' to get their spam out to victims.
Yahoo.com is most likely going to end up on the Remote Blackhole List if
they continue to be hijacked by spammers, its becoming worse and worse as
time goes by.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd_at_rddavis.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: spam/avoidance of
> Speaking of SPAM, this may be a little off-topic, but it does peratain
> to computer collecting and restoration, in that e-mail is somewhat
> necessary for such activities. Have many others found that their ISPs
> are blocking entire domains and that legitimate e-mail is refused
> (bounced) with a "go away" error message? I'm all for limiting SPAM,
> but the blocking out of entire domains of legitimate ISPs is as bad as
> the SPAM; it's equivalent to the telephone company blocking out
> incoming calls from entire area codes, or regions, because of
> telemarketers and seems to defeat the purpose of e-mail, or the
> post-office banning the delivery of mail from entire zip-codes or
> regions.
>
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> All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature
&
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such
> http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.
Received on Wed Jan 30 2002 - 16:40:55 GMT