Am 2004-09-20 09:50:08, schrieb John Goerzen: > On Monday 20 September 2004 08:38 am, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Yes, this is why SPAMers can not use it... > > No, if they were *properly* configured, spammers couldn't use it. Not right, because there are enough ISP's where you can go to the Website and create an account. Then, You connect to the ISP via POT/ISDN and send SPAM via the regular smtp-relay of the ISP. How do you want to stop this now ? > > > to use their e-mail address from that ISP. Unreliable. > > > > Not right. Most ISP's allow sending with other E-Mails > > But not all. What about the people stuck on those ISPs that don't? In China ? Korea ? I do not know one which disallow it... All of my friends can send with there own E-Mails No problem for SPAMers too. > What about people using laptops that work on all sorts of different > networks all the time? If you are working with Laptop, look for a Mail-Provider which support pop3, imap (TLSv1) and asmtp like <http://www.freenet.de/> > > Now, we know, that most SPAM does not come directly from the ADSL- > > Account owner, because most of them are infected with Viruses which > > do the SPAMjob. > > Perhaps so, but again, why punish the innocent? If you get between 4000 and 8000 SPAMs a day, you do not mis 3 or 4 innocents... You can help them to get a solution. OK, the Website ofthe german ISP is only in German, but who need it ? Once the Account is created, you have all you want and a 20 MByte Mailbox > > Most (97%) coming directly to my address linux4michelle@freenet.de > > and around 80% of the SPAM is coming from DUL/DSL > > What that doesn't measure is what percentage of legitimate mail comes > from computers on the DUL/DSL. I know of several people in Debian that > could fall under that category. Branden Robinson comes to mind > immediately. :-) Because I know some people from Debian, which use smtp direct, I have whitelited them. Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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