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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Controlling Spam
From: Chris Owen <owenc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:11:14 -0600 (CST)
Reply-to: discussion@xxxxxxxxx

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, bruce wrote:

> Yes, that is indeed sad.  I suspect many of these come from outside
> the=20 USA so the noise congress has made about stopping it may be
> fruitless. =20 Seems like somehow forcing a real return address would
> be a start, but=20 I have no idea if that could ever be possible.

What is sad is our customers actually have it worse.  Yesterday's email
count:

Spam: 190,419 (84%)
Clean: 36,054 (16%)

And that is with most of our customers having their spam controls set very
permissively (you can lead a horse to water...).

Chris

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