How Spammers Operate

[sheila]

There've been questions from time to time in this forum, as to how to spammers do "such and such"...

Here are some good articles that take you inside the world of a spammer and help you to see exactly how they do what they do.

http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0,aid,101769,00.asp
http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0,aid,101741,00.asp

[sheila]

Discussion of the Brightmail work room, increase in spam, and the outlook on combatting spam:

http://www.iht.com/articles/63067.html

[dank]

We don't tolerate transmission of spam on our network," says WorldCom spokesperson Peter Lucht. "But spamware is content, and we're not in the business of policing Internet content.
Spam[ware] is content? With morals like that, no wonder they went bankrupt...

The story about MonsterHut/PaeTec seems interesting from FQ's standpoint, as it implies there is at least some legal ground for FQ not being liable if a hosted account sends spam.

Dan

[TVB]

WorldCom spokesperson Peter Lucht

Something tells me that bad policies at WorldCom won't be much of an issue in the future.

Betsy