15 May
2002
15 May
'02
12:53 p.m.
--- Kent Borg <kentborg(a)borg.org> wrote:
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:55:50PM -0400, Douglas H.
Quebbeman wrote:
> Sorry about this, but the volume of spam has gotten
> intolerable, and the domains that are hosting it have
> been embargoed; anything from the domains
>
> yahoo.com
> hotmail.com
> msn.com
> aol.com
>
> will be deleted with extreme prejudice.
I understand the sentiment, but that hoses me. I work for one of those
guys (I'm not admitting which one here - company policy) and I happen
to use a variety of names from those domains because I want *portable*
e-mail.
I get a lot of spam, and I do not get much spam from
those domains.
Like nearly zero...
Agreed... as you say... lots of mail purports to come from those addresses
but does not. Personally, I don't have a problem with isolating entire
countries because they can't/won't tighten up open mail relays. There's
an entire thread about how/why South Korea is infamous for this, but it
boils down to a "standard" install for schools, and all the security
instructions are written in English, causing lots of adminstrators to
skip a post-install securing session... <rant,
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