[anti-abuse-wg] ORG-OG2-RIPE -- plusserver.com / plusserver.de

In message <746A4EF3-204F-4F3F-913F-22544EEAF768 at plusserver.com>, 
Christian Adler <christian.adler at plusserver.com> wrote:

>you are completely right. This is not acceptable and I escalate this to my
>collegues who are in charge of this problem.

Thank you Christian for proactively addressing this issue.  It will certainly
be helpful if it becomes possible to email a proper sort of spam report to
Plusserver.  Separately and additionally however, I hope that you and your
collegues will invest some brain cycles also to consider the other part of
the critique that I posted here the other day.

It is apparent that Plusserver does have the technical ability in place to
detect and block spam, at least when it is incoming to your network and to
your company mail server.  Thus it seems apparent that if that same
technology were applied equally and also to all email flowing -out- from
the Plusserver network, this would have an undeniably salutary effect.

It may be technically difficult to set that all up, but as you may be
aware, many larger networks across the globe do already block direct
outbound port 25 TCP connects from their network customers, asking them
all instead to utilize the company's own outbound "smart host" mail
server for all outbound email.  The technology to do this is relatively
easy to put in place, and is quite mature.  If Plusserver were to do this,
possibly with the exception of its large and well-trusted customers, tnen
EVEN IF Plusserver did not also implement any sort of filtering or spam
detection on that one outbound "smart host" mail server, the company would
at least still have some very helpful realtime logs that would clearly
show when some individual customer had been sending a large and atypical
amount of outbound emails.  And that alone might be just enough to disuade
spammers from trying to use the Plusserver network for their disruptive
and abusive activities.


Regards,
rfg