Rod,
There is no legal protection for distributing a list designed to block
spammers, and having a flaw in your methodology that causes non-random
issues for fully legitimate servers all tied to one product. Also keep
in mind that Spamhaus charges for pulling their zones, so it is a
commercial venture, even if it is operated as a non-profit. Spamhaus
serves pretty much every major ISP, and therefore having one's customers
constantly blacklisted with a lack of cause is certainly grounds for
legal action.
Take note that I have operated my own blacklist for three years and
shared it privately with others, but not publically. I am both aware
and concerned with the legal action that spammers have taken on
blacklist providers and our courts have been all too willing to let the
process be abused. The trick here is that spammers are violating laws
and sending unwanted E-mail, and IMail users are not.
Matt
Rod Dorman wrote:
On Monday, January 29, 2007, 12:40:52, Matt wrote:
I believe that Ipswitch should contact them directly, or rather have
their lawyers contact them directly, and let them know that their
actions related to blacklisting servers that are not sending spam, but
instead are failing this test of theirs, is causing harm to their
company and their clients and demand that they cease and desist
immediately.
All they're doing is maintaining a list using their own criteria. If
someone else decides to use that list they obviously agree with that
criteria.
If I maintain a list of odd numbered IP addresses and somebody uses it
as a spam filter are you going to complain to me if you've got an odd IP
address?
