On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Kee Hinckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 24, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Colin Alston wrote: >> >> You should not accept SMTP from the Amazon EC2 cloud at all. Amazon don't >> intend for anyone to use it as an email platform and tell their clients to >> use an external relay. > > I'm sure this is good advice. But if an ISP used that as an excuse for not > taking action, we'd hang them over hot coals. Is Amazon truly not policing > the network for spammers?
not to excuse this, but... it's not a simple problem. The 'bad guy' rolls up to the website, orders 200 machines for 20 mins under the name 'xplosiveman' pays with some paypal/CC and runs his/her job. That job happens to create a bunch of email outbound. It could be a legitimate email service outsourcing their compute/bw needs to AWS, it could be 'pick-yer-bad-spammer' ... AWS really can't tell until after when the complaints roll in. :( I suppose they could say: "no tcp/25 outbound from AWS computer clusters", though that's probably a decent market in the real email-deliver-services :( Also, truly bad folk will just move to using proxies or other methods :( -Chris.
