elvey
Spamassassin
join:2001-02-17
San Francisco, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
 ·Comcast
·SONIC.NET
 ·Cogent Communicati..
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November 25th, @05:57PM
| Status? Emails? Editorial!
At exactly what stage are these US federal antispam bills? [edit: answered here:»www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,a···7,00.asp ]
Bills with different language have overwhelmingly passed both houses, is that right? Where's the text of those bills? If that's right, who's on the committee that irons out the differences? What's their contact info? It's not over 'till it's over.
Has someone compiled a list of the email addresses of all the congresscritters who voted for this?
In CA, the votes for SB 12 and SB 186 were almost exactly along party lines. (The main goal of the current legislation is to nullify SB 186, which actually would have had a long term, significant, positive impact on the problem.) |
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Anonuser
join:2003-01-03
Milwaukee, WI
| Guess I have been lucky o_0
I get about 5 spam/day, out of 300+ emails. that is about 295 of my customers emails/day, and 5 spam.
Oh well, stinks to be those who get crap loads.
On the other hand, I think their should be a special team, with gigabits upon gigabits of bandwidth. When a Spam relay is found, the special team nukes it 
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Chris Allessi ExaltedHosting.com Host of AlbinoBlackSheep KazaaLite Mirror at 2 terrabytes/month |
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dja
The 'd' is silent ... unlike the member.
Premium
join:2002-03-25
Niagara
·Bell Sympatico
| The only solution I can see for myself, would be the
configuration of a "White-List" whereby ANY mail that
is not from an 'approved' sender is not downloaded,
or is deleted, upon receipt.
Each time my 'blocked-senders' list gets to an as yet
determined critical size, it becomes corrupt, and I must
remove the reg-key, and begin all over again.
An 'approved-senders' list would be much smaller,
and better suited to the needs of home-use e-mail.
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"The process, is likely to be a long one, absent... a new Pearl Harbor." (1997) |
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elvey
Spamassassin
join:2001-02-17
San Francisco, CA | dja, that solution exists. If your provider and client both don't support it, get another, or get an email client or provider that does.
It would never work for me; I get wanted, non-spam email from addresses that have never emailed me before. |
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dja
The 'd' is silent ... unlike the member.
Premium
join:2002-03-25
Niagara
·Bell Sympatico
| Thanks. I'll check it out.
I know my provider's representatives have aggressively
argued against a 'white-list', and instead have employed
their own 'black-list', which ironically prevents me from
receiving subscribed-to newsletters, but still allows my
box to be stuffed with cr@p everyday!
Hmmm?
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"The process, is likely to be a long one, absent... a new Pearl Harbor." (1997) |
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