On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, J.D. Falk wrote:
They have to police themselves, or else they get kicked off the list. Simple, neh?
Neh. Definitely NEH. That is the logic of spambots. They get on there, abuse the heck out of it until someone files a complaint and then they get cut off, but not before millions of spams have gone out the door with your 'blessing'. The notion of waiting for complaints opens the doors to failure of systems through overburdening (gee, we got so many complaints we couldn't get to them all in a timely manner).
For example, you've heard a complaint about 'thedateuk' being tossed around this list. Seems to me that if your above statement represented an effective policy, the comment from the original complainant should be "I saw a flood of spam from these IP's and then it just stopped a few hours later." But that's not what I'm reading.
And I don't want excuses. No claims that a certain reporting mechanism "should" have been used. There are enough people receiving spam that if any mechanism were reputable and worthwhile, *someone* would have used it and the spam would have stopped. At the very least, judging by the comments here, no attempt was made to 'group' the offending IP's and the offender just switched to another IP in their block?
Anyway you look at it, there is a reliability issue here.... - Charles
