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

On Mar 17, 2013, at 9:04 PM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> My working definition is mail
>>> sent in bulk to people who didn't ask for it, or perhaps mail sent in
>>> bulk to people who don't want it, which are different definitions but
>>> describe largely the same set of messages.
>> 
>> Define "bulk" -- if I send an unsolicited message to one user each on 
>> every server on the Internet, is that "bulk"?
> 
> Sounds like it.
> 
>> How and where can it be identified?
> 
> Good question.  I didn't say this would be easy.


Bulk is most easily identified at the source.
This is a problem because the other part (unsolicited or unwanted) is identified at the destination.

-- Dan Oetting