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Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Wed Aug 09 21:41:09 2006
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On 8/10/06, Sean Donelan <[email protected]> wrote: 
Shouldn't most of freemail/webmail services be doing their own outbound
spam and virus checking now?


Yes, Sean - they are.  But it is far, far more productive for the
source of this abuse to be choked off.  Call it the difference between
using mosquito repellant and draining a huge pool of stagnant water
just outside your home.

srs

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Suresh Ramasubramanian ([email protected])