On Thursday, July 1, 2004, 2:28:15 AM, Jose Cruz wrote:
David Coulson wrote:
Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
Its not like most spammers use a static 'from' or something.... :)
Sure they do - @comcast.net :-)
Yes, but there are many real people using address of the kind rr.com, comcast.net, yahoo.com, and so...
comcast.net, rr.com, may be considered spam to you, but it isn't for me.
And note:
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:31:32 -0700 From: Kenneth Porter shiva@sewingwitch.com To: spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: SlashDot: Comcast blocking port 25
Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30, @07:29PM from the choke-it-off dept.
Dozix007 writes "Ars Technica reports that: 'After Comcast finally owned up to the massive amounts of spam coming from their network, they decided to identify spammers and zombie relays on their network and block port 25 traffic from those IP addresses. Comcast's efforts are starting to pay off. They announced the amount of spam from their network has dropped 35 percent since they began port blocking and traffic estimates from SenderBase seem to confirm the claims. Spam coming from Comcast subscribers who were formerly on AT&T networks also seems to have decreased'."
It looks like Comcast is trying to clean up their act and it may be having an effect.
Jeff C.