[TAG] (forw) Spam Prevention by Enforcing Standards

[Neil Youngman]

On Friday 13 June 2008 21:36, Rick Moen wrote:
> (The real pros, who also develop mass-mailing
> software dummied down enough so that even spammers can use them, are
> probably the only ones actually making money from this industry.

Apparently not. There is apparently a lot of money made by pushing "high 
value" items via SPAM, specifically (counterfeit) pharmaceuticals. [1]

> I already do follow that general strategy, using "callouts":

A valuable technique, but a little controversial. Some people regard the use 
of sender verification callouts as abuse and will blacklist. They claim they 
shouldn't have to deal with the load imposed by a large burst of joe jobs. 
This ignores the fact that it's pretty cheap compared with the load caused by 
the backscatter that the joe jobs also create.

Neil


[1] http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=156139&f_src=drdaily