phantom6294
join:2002-02-27
Abingdon, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to Stumbles
Re: So, how is this a tax?
Stumbles, I see one major flaw in your reasoning. I would venture to guess that a large bulk of the spam email out there is sent from "anonymous" sources. Basically, most of the spam seems to have faked headers. The reason for this is because the spammers don't want the spam traced back to them. Even tracing the emails back to IP addresses is often fruitless because the major spammers bounce from one dial-up account to the next.
So, in short, if spammers are using forged headers and dial-up (or overseas) accounts to spew spam... they more than likely ARE NOT going to be contacting Goodmail to identify themselves and pay money to have their spam go through unfiltered. I would suspect Goodmail's program requires identification of what servers/IPs a companies email will be coming from.
I seriously doubt this program would cause the amount of spam in our inboxes to increase... but, that doesn't mean I like the idea either. |
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Stumbles
join:2002-12-17
Port Saint Lucie, FL
| Yeah, those are some good points and have to say an oversight on my part.
Though judging from all the stuff I see in my inbox. Very, very little of it is from "legitimate" bulk mailers. Which leads me in around about way to "how" AOL was able to determine these bulk mailers as having such an impact when spam is so much more prolific. I doubt seriously AOL did an in-depth analysis of email headers an sorted it all out.
So I really have to wonder to the validity of AOLs annoyance with such mailers. And have to think this is nothing but a scheme to shore up a failing company. |
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