Email is a consentual medium... both parties have to have given consent to the transaction before it occurs. Email is a person-to-person medium, not a broadcast medium. It's not a gray area. There's no contract between Staples and I that gives them the right to use my equipment and bandwitch to advertise their products to my customers (unless my customer first requested that contact). Spammers have no rights. I don't care if you think that's militant or not. My customers have the rights... they are the ones paying the bill.
Anyway, between spamassassin on the SMTP preprocessor and rules.ima on the Imail... I'm blocking more than 99% of the SPAM at the moment. Point is; I'm willing to share rules.ima ideas without fear of a lawsuit from spammers. They don't have any right to abuse my network or customers. Mike > > I have two points on this. > > On spammers not having rights: That's a fairly militant view, but there's > nothing wrong with that specifically... the trouble comes in when there is > confusion about the definition of a spammer. A good example might be the > spam candidate we received the other day that was a Staples news letter. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
