Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 24, 2004 07:22 PM
Not sure about the rest of you, however my machines have required the sending machine to have a DNS entry for over 5 years. Most if not all federal agencies require this. Clearly this was already prior art out there and won't require a license. Many installations if not all do a reverse query to the sending machine/domain to see if the user exists as well. A lot of good that does if it comes from Hotmail/msnet or aol though.
AOL's approach seems to be a good one. Hit them in the pocketbook. Even as anonymous as IPV4 is, they still track them down. Recently they gave away a nice high end car that they took from a spammer along with his house and most of his posessions as settlement from being sued. Not sure if that will stop them or not. AOL's spam volume went way down, however. Looks like Microsoft wants to hit the customer with yet another fee for stopping spam that almost always originates on a machine that runs their OS. Seems like they would give any solution away for free.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 24, 2004 07:22 PMAOL's approach seems to be a good one. Hit them in the pocketbook. Even as anonymous as IPV4 is, they still track them down. Recently they gave away a nice high end car that they took from a spammer along with his house and most of his posessions as settlement from being sued. Not sure if that will stop them or not. AOL's spam volume went way down, however. Looks like Microsoft wants to hit the customer with yet another fee for stopping spam that almost always originates on a machine that runs their OS. Seems like they would give any solution away for free.
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