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On 02/24/05, "Edward B. Dreger" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I see the same thing. At least 2/3rds are spam forwarded along as > > described above. I have to give some credit to AOL WRT handling that > > type of situation -- they're much better than MSN/Hotmail who do not > > have a whitelist or feedback loop and simply stop accepting mail for > > 12+ hours from any server that reaches a particular spam threshhold. > > We now refuse to forward mail that's almost certainly spam. Users may > POP it, but forwarding is out. Very good idea, given the lack of any standard way for a receiving ISP to know that the mail was forwarded. -- J.D. Falk uncertainty is only a virtue <[email protected]> when you don't know the answer yet
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