On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Jason Haar <jason.h...@trimble.co.nz> wrote:
> On 01/04/2011 04:50 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: > > Frankly, I'd think that besides costing the spammers money (a good thing > in > > and of itself) > ...spammers steal other people's resources - so they'll pay nothing... > The best case scenario we can ever hope for is that they will be stuck > sending all their spam using the From: address and SMTP server of the > infected host - nothing better is possible, unless you can figure out > how to stop 100% of humanity clicking on %&*# executables. > > Some ISP's appear to be doing a much better job at preventing spam-through-official-SMTP-servers than they used to. I just now noticed that rr.com appears to be using Cloudmark on customer mail leaving their official MTA's. Looking through my logs, it appears very little of my spam is coming from official rr.com MTA's these days. This is a good sign. Now why can't Yahoo do this!? =) Warren