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

"Eric Dean" <eric@purespeed.com> Mon, 19 May 2003 20:54 UTC

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From: Eric Dean <eric@purespeed.com>
To: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>, 'Scott Nelson' <scott@spamwolf.com>, asrg@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [Asrg] Some data on the validity of MAIL FROM addresses
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Those addresses are also used because you can't simply block email from
aol.com..not unless you want tech support costs rising directly proportional
to customer attrition.

In addition, spammers can spam those internal networks with their own
addresses because of non-standard mailing list implementations.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asrg-admin@ietf.org [mailto:asrg-admin@ietf.org]On Behalf Of
> Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 9:07 AM
> To: 'Scott Nelson'; asrg@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [Asrg] Some data on the validity of MAIL FROM addresses
>
>
> 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.
>

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