I think that the people managing the blacklist are idiots, and the mail admins who are implementing it are idiots, but they are only guilty of being idiots.
I suspect more pressure will be given to companies like Oracle to stop using the blacklist service than will be given to Time Warner to clean up their act. All that needs to happen is Larry E's emails get blocked and apews will not be used anymore, I'm pretty sure of that. -Cameron On 6/13/07, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nothing is wrong with the concept in general terms. My argument is that this > group is violating a basic trust principle by imposing their agenda through > this technical medium. Does their blacklist subscription ask the mail > administrator whether they agree with the political objective of the group? > Does it suggest to the mail admin that they ought to check with senior > management to see whether they think it is appropriate for their > organization to be directly supporting a political cause? What if, for > instance, a major corporation that does tens of millions of dollars of > business with Time Warner is blocking Time Warner's email? I think that > spells trouble for the clueless mail administrator who just wants to cut > down on spam being sent to his systems. > > I can easily see an escalation of this mess. Just consider what would happen > if someone put together a list of all of the companies that were blocking > Time Warner emails and notified all of Time Warner's customers that they > should complain to those companies and boycott their products. What happens > if people actually start boycotting these organizations because of this > email mess? The mail administrator gets his head handed to him by the CEO, > that's what happens. > > > > On 6/13/07, Dana wrote: > > > > ok well. > > > > mostly I have been viewing this thread as entertainment, but now I am > > curious. What exactly is wrong with using economic tools to push an agenda? > > It's been done many many times. Think bus boycotts in Alabama. Think tax > > policy. > > > > >blacklist is meant to do. They are engaging in a political fight using > > the > > >tools of economic warfare to try to push their agenda. > > > > > > > -- > --------------- > Robert Munn > www.funkymojo.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:236628 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
