Authenticate Us From Evil > limit the number of outgoing emails

limit the number of outgoing emails

I, and others, have wondered for years why more ISPs haven't done this. Some of the big ISPs, particularly the free ones, that spammers use a lot have finally done some limiting of outgoing mail in the last year or so.

Limits don't even need to be tied to higher fees, though the chance to charge a bit more might provide some incentive for some of the greedier or more callous ISPs. ISPs could just by default set low limits on outgoing mail, unless the user contacted them and specifically asked for higher limits because they sent out mailing lists or had some other specific need. And ISPs could still check suspicious mailing patterns regardless of limits, just as credit and phone card companies do when unusual usage shows up.

reply to xv920
No need to charge. A business should just have to call their ISP and register as such, anyone sending large amounts of mail and not registered (hacked PC) will be cut off.

EDIT: rats you beet me to it
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Because Goldengamegod won't fit:p

reply to xv920
having your own hosted server is cheaper than that

And what about those people that happen to send more that 100 emails in a day? Are they automagically classified a spammer?
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Be patriotic or I'm reporting you to Ashcroft.

) And what about those people that happen to send more
) that 100 emails in a day? Are they automagically
) classified a spammer?

You don't "happen" to send 100. If you take just 5 minutes
to compose one, that's 500 minutes total. That's more than
8 hours. That's a job.

But I'll raise it to 200 if it makes you feel any better.
Maybe you can compose one in two and a half minutes. Or
even 500. Now you may compose one email in every single
minute for 8 hours straight. But let me tell you what.
If you have to write somebody something that fast, you
better get a messenger. Email is not a realtime
communication tool.

You're too funny

reply to xv920
this is like claiming only Pirates use Cd burners/Dvd burners and high upload bandwidth... stop tring to make the service crappy and find a real solution

My point is that limiting the number of outgoing
emails doesn't make you, ordinary users, suffer a bit. Or
are you doing something that it might make any difference?

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Or
are you doing something that it might make any difference?

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