On 5-Dec-2009, at 07:57, Per Jessen wrote:
> It seems to me the UK pretty much has its own CAN-SPAM bill - I can't
> remember where I saw it, but it is apparently completely legal to send
> unsolicited marketing email to businesses.
Completely irrelevant. the legality or illegality of a specific spam message is
not relevant to anyone unless that person is tasked with enforcing some
anti-spam law.
The simple fact is, the vast majority of spam is completely unconcerned with
laws, is by design untrackable, and all the legislation in the world will do
*nothing* to curtail it.
This is why it is incumbent on us, as sysadmins, to deal with the problem as
best we can. Until there is some law saying I cannot block spam, I will block
as much as I can. If if I am ever forbidden from blocking it, I will simply
shut down SMTP services completely.
80-95% of the connection attempts to port 25 are either rejected out of hand,
or are spam that is tagged by SA. Somedays the percentage creeps very close to
100%. The total percentage over the last 90 days is 83%.
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