From: "Geo." 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:4jjfav0kdrurhc397e3qsiggs2rbighutd{at}4ax.com...

>    Would you rather accept E-mail from only certain known E-mail servers,
or from anyone?
> One reason you and your customers get so much spam these days is that
spammers break into
> 10,000 poorly secured DSL boxes and send 50 to 100 E-mails from each
compromised box -
> just enough to fly below the radar of SpamCop, RBLs, and the internet
provider.

Proof?

I read headers of all the spam I get that gets by the RBLs and my filters
and it's not coming from DSL customers it's coming from outside the US.

As for hacked dsl boxes, I can tell you the cause of that because I've seen
it happen first hand. People reinstall when their computers act up, when
they reinstall they reinstall from a CD they got 2 years ago, that means
they are reinstalling unpatched software. THAT is the problem that needs to
be addressed.

Geo.

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