On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 14:00, david(a)farrar.com wrote:

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Oh I agree they do - but at the scale of the ISPs with 10 million+ customers or products that are in wide use. I can't see a spammer adjusting anything just because they read on a website that Ihug with 80,000 customers uses Spam Assassin.

The key phrase there is "I can't see", it doesn't matter what you can't see, it matters what the people (the ISP industry) see, if they aren't comfortable giving out the measures they take then any central page where people can easily see what people are using will be useless.

Well I don't think I have suggested it is going to be compulsory or anything. In fact it is only one of hundreds of possible aspects of an overall anti spam campaign. Of course it is up to ISPs to list whatever details they want. If no-one lists anything then we just have a very short page. I would suggest that more and more consumers will pick an ISP on the basis of services like spam filtering. I have helped several people swap ISPs from those who do not have anti spam technology to those who do. Ihug's spam assassin (free plug) has been a huge benefit to me and it's the best $2.50/mth I spend. Anyway enough bandwidth wasted on this. My last post on the topic. DPF