Re: How has the spam problem changed in the past decade?

>>>> In other words... has the "spam problem" changed in the last 10 years?


On Mar 17, 2013, at 3:32 PM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:

> One of the ways I see that the spam problem has changed in the past
> decade is that we have converged on practical definitions of spam,


TECHNICAL
agreed. furthermore, and as a result, we have effectively banished botnet spam and greymail spam to the boondocks.

We have seen a huge increase in spam in other mediums which have less effective filtering.

POLICY
Along with effective technical solutions, a cottage industry has sprung up of 'deliverability experts' who help some greymail marketer types get better at permission and sticking to well-publicized BCPs.
(I wanted to provide a link to a recent spamhaus blog post but they are sustaining a huge DDoS at the moment)

LEGAL
we have seen a  steady improvement in the use development and use of spam laws, internationally (see: any number of botnet take-downs), and public-private cooperation is the norm. Whitehat researchers are making a vast difference in the fight. I can provide this link because the recent DDoS has been mitigated : http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-for-cowards/