Marc Perkel wrote:
Randy Ramsdell wrote:
DAve wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
Looking for a few volunteers who want to reduce their spambot spam
and at the same time help me track spambots for my black list. This
is free and mutual benefit. I (junkemailfilter.com) want to be your
highest numbered fake MX record. Here's how you would configure
your domain:
A generous offer and an admirable effort. But if you think I or my
clients are going to route mail to your servers you are mistaken.
Even if I knew you personally, I don't think ethics or common sense
would allow me to do so.
DAve
Not taking a position on this, but isn't outsourcing spam filtering
normal? Although I would think one would consider carefully about
outsourcing their e-mail filtering, I don' think common sense or
ethics have a whole lot to do with it.
Thanks Randy,
I am in the outsourced spam filtering business so this all seems
natural to me. And I look at it as win/win. I get useful data, the
person letting me use their high numbered MX record gets some spam
reduction. I'm not interested in the content of the message or
anything other than catching the IP addresses of virus infected spam
bots. That's all I want to do.
I think sender score does something similar, but I am not very familiar
with how they obtain stats. I recall something about an isp, etc...
providing log data and then use the data to rate domains. Comcast
started using them. Personally, I wasn't impressed with the data they
had for certain domains, especially our own and I see a need to improve
that actually.
As DAve pointed out, getting someone to redirect corporate e-mail to you
for testing may not be something people could or would do. As a paid
vendor for someone with appropriate agreements, it becomes more reasonable.
