----- Original Message ----- From: "Doctor PC - Brian O'Donnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 12:45 AM Subject: [domains-gen] Question (may be OT)
> Hello > > I am very sorry if this is off-topic (and maybe a little verbose), but I > have run into a conflict of opinion situation and need some feedback. > > Supposing I purchase from Tucows (or some other entity) a domain > registration, coupled with e-mail forwarding. Suppose, further, that I am > not interested in subscribing to any spam filtering or any such tool that > might lessen the load on the mailservers, for whatever reason. > > Let's follow our little piece of sh-- I mean spam, as it goes from its > source... > to the domain name, which is set up for email forwarding.... > through Tucows (for instance)... > and finally to my private email address at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Now, myISP has put in place procedures to prevent the spread of spam. So > they look at this (single) email message, and, seeing that it "came from" > Tucows, blocks Tucows' entire IP block. > > Now, Tucows' other customers who are also served by myISP ([EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.) don't get their automated 60, 30 etc.. day notices > because they all bounce back to Tucows as a banned host. > > Are you with me so far? > > What is the ethical (or legal) ramifications of myISP doing something like > that? Can they really punish the recipient of the spam? I have been > involved > in a discussion on SpamCop's forum today and the general concensus over > there is that because myISP is paying for the infrastructure, they, and > they > alone, call the shots as to what a user (paying customer) may receive. We > are not talking about being punished for sending, just receiving. > > Any opinions? Normally its specific IP's that are blocked and usually for a set period of time to see if the problem persists. That is how most blacklists work. We use some fairlu beign blacklisting and I have never had a customer complain or even notice. I think its if you use one of the radical blacklists that you will get collaterol damage or false positives. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
