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

On Mon 18/Mar/2013 05:21:55 +0100 Dan Oetting wrote:
> 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.

Define destination.  A recipient can certainly say that a message is
unwanted, but solicitations are not managed at the MX.

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