Re: [anti-spam-wg] European Comision and spam

[Esa esa@localhost]

Jesus Sanz de las Heras kirjoitti:
> Anybody knows how  they are these filtering measures in Finland?
>
> Are they filtering technics  or they're results of FICORA's regulation
> in Finland abot "Information Security and Functionaly of email services"
>   
There are few aspects of this "reduction". First the technical ones:
- mandatory limits on outbound and inbound port 25 usage for consumer 
connections (most ISPs have interpreted this as "block" to anything else 
than ISPs' MTAs).
- blocklist usage (generally ISPs won't tell which lists they use, so 
you're out in the dark if something gets blocked)
- during virusbreaks, attachment filtering on the ISPs' MTA
- other limits on ISP's MTA usage (yet again, mostly cloack and dagger 
stuff revolving around rate limiting)

Then others:
- misleading description on what was reported (report was "spam 
reduction", when it should have been "reduction on spam reaching 
end-user mailboxes for those users that use ISPs mailservers")
- misinterpreted statistics
- imaginary statistics

For most part the results are due to the non-technical actions. So, this 
is actually a case of The Emperor's New Clothes.

There is a writeup on this report at 
http://www.iki.fi/jhuhta/roskaposti_ei_vahentynyt.html . Unfortunately 
it is in Finnish. I've asked the author for permission to translate it 
in English.

esa