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Spam Wars Make Strange Bedfellows
Jon Lasser, 2003-03-05

The open-source community is closer than ever to curing the spam problem, but they'll have to hold their noses and help out Windows users to get there.

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Spam Wars Make Strange Bedfellows 2003-03-06
Anonymous
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Bayesian filtering for windows... 2003-03-06
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Bayesian filtering for windows... 2003-03-08
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Spam Wars Make Strange Bedfellows 2003-03-09
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Spam Wars Make Strange Bedfellows 2003-03-09
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Spam Wars Make Strange Bedfellows 2003-03-13
Thomas Nilsen
As Inactivex666 pointed out, I think that DNSBL lists will play a very important part of the fight against spam.

With correct use of DNSBL, where spammers are blocked at the MTA connection level - and not just tagged by a filter, the amount of data spammers can push on the internet is limited. Only the first part of the SMTP negotaion will be completed and the spammers would never get to the actual "content" (DATA) part of the connection.

But ISP needs to be as well as get more responsibility to crack down on spammers. Without the help from the ISPs, this problem will never go away.

Thomas

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Spam Wars Make Strange Bedfellows 2003-03-17
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