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Re: boycotting peers (was Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming:Microsoft pushing Sender ID)

  • From: william(at)elan.net
  • Date: Sat Jul 09 14:00:27 2005 
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, J.D. Falk wrote:


On 07/09/05, Todd Vierling <[email protected]> wrote:


(I may believe in the principles here, mind you, but I'm far to small to
make a point.  A workable net-boycott absolutely requires that action be
taken by a non-castrated 800lb gorilla.)

	Boycotts worked great back when spammers were stationary and
	users were more complacent, but spam sending techniques have
	evolved a lot in the past ten years.
A lot of them are still stationary. You may see lots of traffic coming
from spam proxies but these are all controlled by farms of servers and ISPs hosting these farms know what these servers are for and let it be.
They are just happy they don't get reports about it any more and their
hosting of such customers can be hidden and behind the scene ...

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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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