[lug] ISP for antispam recommendations?

[rm at fabula.de]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:15:02AM -0500, John Karns wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, D. Stimits said:
> 
> > no inclination to help. The funny thing is that the European countries
> > are *very* responsive and quite courteous, perhaps even more so than
> > American ISP's. I believe Korean and Chinese and Taiwan businesses have
> 
> I sent personal email to someone with a wanadoo.fr domain address on one
> or two ocassions, and have since noticed that I have been receiving some
> spam from that domain ... coincidence? 

Most likely. Wanadoo.fr is one of the major french providers (France Telecom)
an probably comparable to yahoo.com. If you receive spam from yahoo you wouldn't
claim that yahoo harvests email adresses, or? Well, maybe they actually do,
looking at my recent spam :-)

 Ralf Mattes

>                                         or do you suppose that the ISP is
> harvesting email addresses which pass through their domain?
> 
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> John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net
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