[SpamCop-List] Re: Did the MS suits stop Spammy overnight?

[N. Miller]

In article <d2kdja$3kg$1 at news.spamcop.net>, Possum Trot says...

> Today was the lowest number of spam in my attglobal.net account in 5 years - 
> only 6 compared with 220 the day before and an average of more than 200 per 
> day for the past year.   Surely the MS suits filed yesterday didn't impact 
> that number. 

How much spam were you getting from SBC sources? How much are you now 
getting from SBC sources? Last September I received an email from SBC 
announcing that they intended to implement port 25 blocks on outbound 
connections. Last December fellow SBC customers began bitching about not 
being able to connect to there off-ISP SMTP servers. At that time I was not 
blocked, but I started investigating my mail providers. By last January I 
had converted to using port 587, or port 465. Two nights ago I ran a Telnet 
check on one of those servers; port 25 is now blocked for me.

It has now been seven days since I have received a spam message through an 
SBC open proxy; and, for the first time since October, or so, Comcast is 
ahead of SBC for open proxy spam.

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