RE: [Asrg] Some data on the validity of MAIL FROM addresses

[Vernon Schryver <[e-mail]>]

> From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[e-mail]>

> The FROM address is being choosen to maximize the probability
> the email is opened.
>
> People trust what they know. They know AOL, Hotmail, yahoo.
> It would be interesting to see whether the YAH addresses
> decline over the next few months as they step up enforcement
> on the legal front.

Is an address like [e-mail] better known than an address
like [e-mail]?  Given the flood of spam, are most users more
likely to open mail from [e-mail], [e-mail], or
[e-mail]?  The answers clearly favor spammers using
[e-mail].  That they could use [e-mail] but don't is
almost certainly not a coincidence.

AOL has a very long history of enforcement on the legal front.  Why
haven't spammers been paying attention?  My answer is that AOL stopped
launching lawyers for a few years or perhaps AOL is again giving away
free, spam-all-you-want-for-40-day drop-boxes because they are no
longer checking credit card numbers.

If the legal front matters to spammers, then the long established laws
against header forgery as well as civil actions such as flowers.com
case should also matter.  Those should cause spammers to look for ways
to legitimately own their sending addresses.  The easiest way to do
that is to use free provider drop-boxes.


Vernon Schryver    [e-mail]
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