New virus - VERY DANGEROUS!

[Jack]

It's quite possible that the user is using a remote (not the isp's)
pop server while wanting to use the local smtp server, so the email
client needs to be able to handle the case where smtp and pop
credentials differ.

Well, then that user can't do POP-before-SMTP.

 

[optikl]

However, Bart, the general observation by the Brits of our
litigatation-happy situation here in the U.S. is well taken by
me. Physicians, surgeons, and other medical specialists are
leaving my State of Pennsylvania in droves because they can
no longer affort the cost of malpractice insurance here. Not
that they're leaving the country necessarily ... seems that
some States have put limits on the maximums that can be
awarded, and insurance costs are much lower in some
States than others.

Having to wait many days for needed heart bypass surgery,
etc., is the effect of the greed of a few, and it's absolutely
disgusting when the life of your loved ones are threatened
due to this greed, and that of the lawyers who oppose any
change in the status quo. IOW, it pisses me off!

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

Litigation for the sake of ripping someone off is wrong. And it's
obviously a problem in the medical sector of our economy. Unfortunately,
there are enough documented instances of real malpractice driving the
cost of medical malpractice insurance. And lets not forget that
insurance companies more than spread the risk.

 

[Munger Joe]

I've not heard of such a scheme; I think it would be illegal in western
countries for an ISP to intercept outbound email traffic without telling
you about this policy.

AOL was doing that, but they apparently phased it out. It wasn't a
sudden policy change, the servers that did the forwarding apparently
weren't being maintained and kinda died off one by one. That's what it
looked like to me when I was fooling around with AOL a while back,
anyway. I think other ISPs have that kind of setup.

Server-side anti-spam software can be linked in to the SMTP server to
catch outgoing spam, as well as incoming spam. A message would have to
be identified as spam using methods other than DNSBLs; Bayes, and
techniques such as searching for giveaways (too many caps in one line,
too many exclamation marks, FREE, and a bunch of other clues that
generally get extracted from the message-body).

Don't forget plain ol' rate limiting.

Joe