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

On Monday 12 December 2011 18.26, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> And that'd be just how much as a percentage of the legitimate mail you
> get from their IP space?

100% 

It's years ago since i had any mail conversation with a yahoo-customer. But i still get
spam from various yahoo-ranges, none of them related to former contacts. It's simply
a lazy policy that allows abuse of their resources.

I can mention gmail as a site with excellent spam policy. Anyone trying to send
spam through gmail will be "killed" fast. So it's not impossible to block 
spammers, but it takes some resources and comittment to do so.



> 
> Note - please have data points that are based on a more substantial
> number of users than say "corporate exchange server" or "personal
> linux box"
> 
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:30 PM, peter h <peter at hk.ipsec.se> wrote:
> >
> > Yahoo in one of the major sources of "ISP-based spam. The majority however
> > comes from stolen windoze (home)computers.
> 
> 
> 

-- 
        Peter Håkanson   

        There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it
        again ... and again ... and again ... and again.
        ( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )