However, ISP's blocking smtp ports for suspected spammers would help... Ideally they'd block all traffic on port 25 or 587 not sent through their SMTP engine which would do some basic spam checks...
> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Gregorie [mailto:mar...@gregorie.org] > Sent: 20 November 2012 11:29 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to report a spam botnet > > On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 01:26 +0000, Chih-Cherng wrote: > > > Notification help raise victims' security awareness, and motivate them > > to fix vulnerabilites within their computers. > > > I have my doubts about this. I have friends who help at retiree's computer > clubs and with disinfecting their friend's computers. > > The message I hear from them is that there are significant numbers of users > who refuse to help themselves: they don't/won't update their system or > their AV software, will click on anything, open any and all mail and who won't > learn that this is stupid behaviour. The reinfection time for such gentry is > about two weeks: it takes about that long before they show up whining that > their computer has become very slow again so please do something about it. > > I'm not sure what, if anything, can be done about such computer owners > apart from repairing their machine with a 5 kg lump hammer, though a > general ISP agreement to auto-disconnect infected computers may well > help. Fat chance of that, though. > > Martin >
