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Spam
- In the middle and late 1990s, when companies were just getting started on the internet, early esps were mostly spam-for-hire companies who made few or no efforts to ensure that the bulk email they sent went to people who had asked to receive it.
- Fortunately, many esps learned that it was not in their best interests to spam.
- Today you are as unlikely to get spam from a responsible esp as you are from a responsible isp.
- Spammers, of course, don't want you to reply and don't want you to know who they are.
- So the from: field won't help you if you want to determine where the spam email comes from.
- The number of spam messages passed between individuals and businesses continues to increase significantly each day, to the point that some are literally overwhelmed by their sheer volume.
- Spammer.
- A Mail Drop is an email address at a second ISP, to be used to receive email after a spam.
- Used because the spammer knows that the account from which the spam was sent will be cancelled.
- Some spam claims to be opt-in, but it never is.
- an smtp mail server used by spammers to route their bulk email through.
- Open relays allow spammers to hide their identity.
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