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Originally Posted by Toto
At its peak, up to 30M emails were being blocked daily from hitting the ntl network from known spam allowing networks thanks to these block lists.
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Possibly. But the point is: how many of these "up to 30M" emails were spam, and how many were genuine - possibly important - emails? And if this spam blocking is so wonderful, why do I still get on average ten spam emails per day?
Spam will not be conquered by using blunt and inappropriate instruments; it will only be blocked by implementing secure, authenticated, email protocols, so that the sender of the spam can be positively identified and prevented from sending any more spam. That is if you can determine what is spam and what is not. I've earlier commented on the increasingly sophisticated methods spammers are using to defeat spam filters. Although why they bother is another question. Some of the contrived spam emails I receive (despite NTL's precautions) are so obviously bogus that nobody in their right mind would respond to them. But sadly, some people are that gullible I guess.