[nycbug-talk] spam & comcast

[Trish Lynch]

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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, G.Rosamond wrote:

> mentioned by eric allman this am at usenix. . .
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> http://news.com.com/Comcast+reports+35+percent+decline+in+spam/2100
> -1038_3-5251909.html?tag=nefd.top
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For a second, I was going to get upset, but then I realized what they're
doing....

plus this excerpt from another article allayed my fears:

"While many spammers use an open port 25 as a workaround, there are
legitimate uses as well. More technically savvy subscribers and small
businesses use the open port to connect to outside mail servers or to run
their own SMTP servers. "

"We have commercial customers that aren't spammers that we don't want to
impact," Comcast's Bowling said.

Check the headers from my mail if you don't know why I was panicing :)

- -Trish


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