The Spam Cryer

Dilbert – Our Spam Filter Has Become Self Aware?

Has it come to this? Do we need an anti-spam engine so powerful that it becomes self aware?

While it is nice that spam volume has declined some since McColo has been shut down there is still a lot of messages out there that are spam and a vacuum right now waiting to be filled by other spammers.

While there is a temporary lull in spam volume the underlying problem still remains. The SMTP protocol that we all rely on and both love and hate was originally designed when the Internet was a small well-run network and everyone knew everyone else or knew someone who knew them and could vouch for each new connection or request to relay mail for someone. Open Relay mail servers were the norm and not the exception. Today you can

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