> Well when you have taken every precaution to make sure you are not a
> spammer and follow their guidelines and you still end up in their
> database it is very frustrating.
Very frustrating. At a certain time I could not receive email from Macromedia because they were listed in a blacklist. But after some digging I could prove that that blacklist did not follow its stated policy for submission and removal. Now it doesn't exists anymore ;-)
> Most of these blacklists are run by
> some guy who decided he would help eliminate spam.
I seriously doubt that. The resources required to maintain a blacklist are huge, not in the last place because you will be under a constant DDoS. I am not familiar with a single blacklist that is maintained by an individual rather then an organisation.
Could you name one?
> I am all for doing
> away with spam but who are they to be such jerks and stop a legitimate
> company from doing business.
They don't. They simply give their opinion about an IP address and it is up to the mail administrator to believe them or not and act upon that opinion or not.
Worldwide, there are about 5 blacklists that I trust sufficiently to use them for myself. There isn't a single one I trust sufficiently to use it to filter the email for my customers.
> There should be one organization that
> controls this so when you prove you are not a spammer you don't have to
> find 10 different places to remove yourself. They really aren't user
> friendly at all.
Most are not intended to be user friendly.
Most should not be used to block email, only to tag it.
Most should probably not be used at all.
None should be forced upon a user by his administrator.
But in all cases, it is the configuration of the receiving mail server that decides whether email should be received or not, not the blocklist itself.
Jochem
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