[anti-abuse-wg] Spam FAQs need revision, was 2011-06 New Policy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:ops.lists at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 6:14 PM
> To: Thor Kottelin
> Cc: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net

> "Reps for spam or spam support" and constant contact .. jesus, you
> don't know too much do you?

No, definitely not too much, but considering your vast experience in 
combating spam, I would be surprised were you to deny the reputation I 
mentioned.

That is really a side issue though. My point was that MAAWG and RIPE are 
dissimilar communities with dissimilar memberships. Whether those 
dissimilarities are minor enough for RIPE to refer to MAAWG documents 
instead of continue creating its own is a matter for consensus.

> As for yahoo - or gmail or any of the other large free services out
> there, they can deter spammers from signing up.  And they can spam
> filter their outbound email.  But I seriously doubt they, or
> anybody
> else, is going to catch 100% of the spam.   They just happen to
> have
> like several million users more than you do, so the volume of spam
> (as
> opposed to the percentage of spam) is higher.

It is the volume that hurts, not the percentage.

-- 
Thor Kottelin
http://www.anta.net/