If you could see our ACLs and how our mail servers are set up you would
realize just how much we, and most ISPs, work at blocking spammers. The
problem is that 1) spammers have ISPs that are dedicated to spamming and
2) windows machines are easy to hijack to spam with.

Those windows boxes are virtually impossible to block because they pop
up seemingly at random, then disappear. To stop 90% of the spam in the
world would actually be fairly easy in my opinion, just refuse
connections from Windows NT. Unfortunately that would stop a lot of
legitimate email; also it's easy to spoof that the box _isn't_ windows,
so we are back to square one again.

tom
K0TAR

AM200 wrote:

Hello,

So if you work at an ISP, why do people never block spammers? It's always
the same companies people sign up to. You have the technology to block the
users completely and/or take action after doing a trace. It can be done
here in the UK.

"Tom Ring" wrote in message
...

Nope, absolutely incorrect. I work at an ISP, and with very few
exceptions, we get the same money regardless of the traffic. It is
therefore in our best interest to minimize traffic. This is a cutthroat
business, and no one can raise prices without losing customers.

tom
K0TAR

Reg Edwards wrote:


Anything which increases traffic volume benefits Internet service

providers.

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