[anti-abuse-wg] how to detect spambots - SPAMTrusted

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:44:28PM +0100, Jørgen Hovland wrote:
> From many previous discussions I have a hard time believing that you will 
> ever reach consensus on the definition of what spam is. Trying to ban it 

Definition, yes. UBE is usually easier to define and is practically
equivalent to spam. But pretty much everyone recognizes a spam if they
see one. It is therefore easy for a human to detect spam and take
corrective action against a spammer or spamming host.

> With regards to a valid contact email address, not valid abuse 
> emailaddress, I still believe that it should be optional.

What should be optional? The abuse address? The contact address? The
validity? I think it's very reasonable to require all netblocks to have
a valid contact email address.

(PS- Jørgen: your mail server rejected my direct message to you. You
may want to fix that)
 
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