Techman21
join:2005-04-14
Richmond, VA
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Bah. If you actually read the article this guy spits out a paragraph or two about e-mail then goes straight into some spiel about megapath and Bell South who he terms "The Devil".
The cause of the issue isn't necessarily the fault of the ISPs; in some cases it is. But the majority of the issue is the lack of coming together to root out the annoying spammers who cause the issue of slamming the mail servers in the first place. Then you have morons who click on everything and allow everyone to e-mail them. Putting more strain on the mail server for other customers.
We recently upgraded the mail software at my job and regardless of how much spam we are able to stop now we still get complaints that spam comes thru. Well no duh genius. There isn't an e-mail address on this planet that is impervious to getting spam. Its just near impossible. Even setting the account up to only receive mail from trusted senders. That test now no longer works thanks to morons who let worms and viruses nest on their machines and fail to clean them up.
It is widely known in the IT industry that the likes of AOL, Hotmail, et al. like to let some mail (randomly it appears) to be sucked into a black whole never to be seen. Nor are there any notifications on what happens to mail. At the same time keep in mind the protocols and software being used here. Obviously there is a large flaw somewhere within the system if this is consistently happening all over. Unless the bounce messages have been turned off by the offending ISP. This may be done in order to stop spamming of bounced messages to forged e-mail addresses. Although if SPF was used more widely it would/should be less of a problem (spoofs that is). But see MS and AOL don't like playing nice so MS comes up with their own convoluted solution and AOL just doesn't plain care enough. No wonder AOL is heading towards a free strategy. |
