| reply to WildGod
Re: SPAM HATERS TRY THIS said by wildxgod:
I use a program called "spambusters" which will check the header info and create an email to send the spammers isp urging them to shut them down...
That strategy stopped working in 1999 or so.
As spam grew out of control, the volume of complaints rose to the point that ISP managers could no longer keep up.
This is especially true of the big ones like Earthlink and AOL. Unless they have a law to point to, or some way of making money with anti-spam control measures, there just isn't any way they'll deploy staff to deal with spam complaints. It costs them money so they just plain don't respond.
Smaller ISPs do still implement successful anti-spam controls.
The other issue is this: open relays are widely deployed outside the USA. Even a law won't stop those from working, unless it has sufficient teeth to shut down the transit links to entire sovereign nations. |
