Re: outbound failure limiting - the next phase in the spam war?

On Thu, 26 May 2005 09:44:57 +0200
mouss <usebsd@free.fr> wrote:

> Greg A. Woods wrote:
> >
> > Well, it's not quite that drastic, but in fact the US Federal Trade
> > Commission, under the guise of "Operation Spamzombie", is explicitly
> > requesting all ISPs to:
> >

> >
> > These recommendations are being, or have already been, sent to all
> > ISPs by the US FTC. I second their request and strongly encourage
> > everyone(not just ISPs, but everyone running any network gateway) to
> > do as they ask, A.S.A.P.
> >
>
> the problem is that even if all US ISPs follow the recommendation
> (which for some will certainly take at some time), that still leaves
> all the others. call me pessimistic if you want, but I don't see that
> happening (globally I mean).
>


According to reports I've seen they are trying to get most other G8
country organisations in place as well. The OFT is supposed to be
getting involved here, although quite what it has to do with them I have
not a clue. Of course it would help if we had some anti-spam laws that
bit.


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