Major ISPs Publish Anti-Spam Best Practices

wayne writes "The ASTA, an alliance of major ISPs, has just published a set of best practices to help fight spam. The list of ISPs include the likes of AOL, Yahoo, MSN/Hotmail, Earthlink and Comcast. The recommendations include such things as limiting port 25 use, rate limiting email, closing redirectors and open relays, and detecting zombies. For details, see the ASTA Statement of Intent (pdf) or any of the ISP's antispam websites."

Re:What about my personal mail server?

[Anonymous Coward]

To harden your mail server, heat it to 1000 degrees, then quench it in oil. This is guaranteed to block all spam.

it all works out for the ISPs

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

Spammers paid a lot to get their spam out and people like AOL and Earthlink cozied right up. Now it is unpopular so they pretend to be fighting spam. My guess is that then they will hold out for more profit from spammers, it is a cycle of blackmail.

Re:Best practices,... published?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. There's one going around now titled best practices to help fight spam Delete that one right away.

But be sure to verify your Paypal information, that one's legit.

Re:What about my personal mail server?

[Anonymous Coward]

Heat the spammer to 1000 degrees, then quench it in oil. This is guaranteed to block all future spam from this rat.

might help if...

[voudras]

might help if they publish these in korean and chinese

Re:Best practices,... published?

[WormholeFiend]

Have you ever seen any GOOD spammer behavior?

As a matter of fact, yes.

Some of them retire.

Or die.