On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:13:44PM -0400, David Brodbeck is rumored to have said:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eli [mailto:eli-list@experthost.com]
>
> > You'd be better off filtering the outbound email from your users and
> > blocking them from sending any email that gets a high spam rating via
> > SpamAssassin checks or something.
>
> That idea is fraught with all kinds of problems. For example, what if I'm
> trying to forward a spam message I received to abuse@(wherever), so I can
> report it?
And then there's the fact that the vast majority of spam comes through proxies, trojaned machines, etc. Very little spam is sent through ISP servers these days, from what I'm seeing.
It's a responsible thing to do and would certainly help with the accounting, but I don't think it'd do much of anything to abate the spam problem.
