News Flash: Spammers Don't Like Bandwidth Throttling
from the boo-hoo dept
ZaneK writes "Internet Retailer reports that "e-mail marketers" are having a harder time reaching their victims because more ISPs are implementing bandwidth throttling and rate limiting. From the article: "E-mail sent by marketers attempting to open too many concurrent SMTP connections or sending too many messages in too short of a period can result in 'time-out' errors or 'delays' at broadband providers." " Why do I get the feeling that not too many people are going to be too upset about this one?
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Funny
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
Serves you right, you bastards!
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Spyware companies are complaining? That's a riot..
Well, that's what you get for being dishonest, lying, disgraceful bastards... those of you making a living by exploiting other people honestly need to rethink your lives.
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I sure dont mind
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I find this a 'very hard to swallow' statement. Other then that, as long as they only throttle SMTP traffic, I suppose I would not have a problem with it.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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yay
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It's about SMTP, not Broadband
What is really happening is that many ISPs limit the number of simultaneous incoming SMTP connections from any IP address (probably "mail server"), in some cases to just one. This means that anyone (spammer or not) emailing multiple addresses at that ISP will experience slower delivery. This is not a new development and not news. Any competent email system can keep retrying until the messages get through, but email virusses will be slowed. Presumably ISPs hope that the delay will more allow more time for their blocklists to update.
AOL are not a small ISP, but they have an interesting spin on spam blocking. They count incoming emails and block them if the number looks suspicious, returning a "temporary" error condition so the sender knows to retry later. Then I think an actual human being checks a sample email and decides whether to blacklist the sender. I wish all ISPs would work this way.
The best approach for ISPs looking to fight spam is a combination of blocklists and whitelisting, but your mileage may vary. The best approach for individuals is to use several email addresses, never ever tell your main email address to anyone except friends and family, and discard the others when they start getting spam. Spam filtering may help, too.
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Re: It's about SMTP, not Broadband
I also have two other emails one for family one for business both are used sparingly for trusted users...
I still think ISP could do more also... but throttling is a start.
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Re: It's about SMTP, not Broadband
I use SpamAssault to filter the spam and when the number of messages becomes a pain to set-up the auto-delete I change my email address. The idea of using a number os subsidiary email addresses sounds great, and I think I may set up a couple.
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Re: It's about SMTP, not Broadband
I use SpamAssault to filter the spam and when the number of messages becomes a pain to set-up the auto-delete I change my email address. The idea of using a number of subsidiary email addresses sounds great, and I think I may set up a couple.
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It's hurting small companies.
"Too many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later"
I agree spam is getting out of control, but only because no ISP has the guts to deny DNS lookup to spamming domains.
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