[TriLUG] NC spam laws?

[Brandon L. Newport]

Here is the key to that...first the spammers have to know the addresses to
send to allow their spam through. Plus most systems have it weighted such
that if the number of messages showing up as spam out weigh the nonspam
messages then it is considered spam.  Most of the spammer software out there
is gathering email addresses not trying to get past all the anti spamming
software.  So as long as our customers know where it is and how to manage it
then we should be fairly safe :)

But then again nothing is perfect.

-brandon


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From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of
Chris Hedemark
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 2:11 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] NC spam laws?


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On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 02:05 PM, Brandon L. Newport wrote:

> server for which others could tie into.  It is basically a blacklist & 
> whitelist for users to send known spam too. And when email is tagged 
> as spam you could forward the email to have it tagged as NOT SPAM.

What is to stop a spammer from forwarding real spam to the whitelist to 
have it tagged as NOT SPAM?  Is there some sort of authentication?

IMHO, something more substantial needs to be done.  SMTP was designed 
at a time when users could be trusted to behave.  SMTP needs to be 
retired in favor of something more robust with greater accountability.  
Yes, this would greatly reduce the anonymity of email but that's 
something I'm willing to live with in order to nearly eradicate spam.
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