[brlug-general] The end of email? I told you so!

[Jeffrey Lee]

I run a server of about 50 users, but dont see as much spam as most  
people claim. I do use about 6 rbls, spamassassin and spf checks. My FP  
rate is about 0.2% I have about 6 honeypots which I sign up at various  
spam zones for bayes learning. Does anyone else use SpamAssassin or  
RBLs?

On Feb 3, 2005, at 12:11 AM, Blake Gardner wrote:

> Being a server administrator; I can tell you that the amount of spam  
> my network gets is just freaking ridiculous. One server can process  
> over 34000 emails per day and I bet only 200 of them where legit.  
> Though my spam filters catch most of the crap, I think that email is  
> going to be so over spammed that people will stop using email  
> eventually. I have almost given up hope on my Cox email address. I  
> have over 3000 emails in it right now and I haven’t even bothered  
> trying to sort through them.
>
>  I also think that spammers are thieves. They consume other people’s  
> resources and bandwidth for their own financial gain.
>
>  Will Hill wrote:
> Cnet is reporting that spammers have done the obvious and are making  
> their
> bots use ISP mailservers.  Slashdot pointed to it:
>
>  http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/02/2317243&tid=172&tid=111
>
> They quote Linford of Spamhouse:
>
> /*****************
> This will cause serious problems for the e-mail infrastructure, as it  
> is
> impractical to block mail with domain names from large ISPs. Linford  
> predicts
> that ISPs will see a growth in the volume of bulk mail they send and  
> receive
> over the next two months, with spam levels rising from 75 percent of  
> all
> e-mail to around 95 percent within a year.
>
>
> "The e-mail infrastructure is beginning to fail," Linford warned.  
> "You'll see
> huge delays in e-mail and servers collapsing. It's the beginning of the
> e-mail meltdown."
> **************/
>
> He then goes on to recommend further choking email from clients  
> because ISPs
> don't have the staff to educate their users.
>
> When cox blocked my email, I told them that this would happen.
> Decentralization is what makes the internet strong.   Port blocks  
> don't help
> anyone but the spammers.
>
> Infected or abusive computers should be disconnected until they fix  
> their
> problems.  The user won't be able to tell the difference.  Throttled  
> email
> that gets used up by spammers will look to the user as if they were
> disconnected by their ISP and the problem of explaining things won't be
> avoided.  The source of the problem needs to be repudiated and that's
> Microsoft's buggy software.
>
> I can only hope that ISP's see their long term interest.  The  
> alternative is
> that no one will have email.  Any alternative will be hijacked the  
> same way.
>
> M$ delenda est.
>
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