Not exactly, at least thats not how I see it. If enough users of an ISP or email suppliers complain they are blocked by one, big deal, blocked by dozens, then it begins to matter and the ISP's must take notice. We as an admin community have done nothing to stop the spam problem. Oh, some filteer, most have a TOS that they stick to but thats it. Hell, when it gets bad enough that congress looks into it you know that congress will shit on you with their solution. If it a drastic enough problem then we should deal with it ourselves. I know that blocking innocent users is not with the spirit of the Internet but any solution congress comes up with will be worse and we can remove blocks easily with a few edits. No so with whatever solution congress comes up with, you wont just edit that away.
When our ISP blocked mail intended for my company (we're a small company, don't want to administer a mail server locally) based on RBL's, I pitched a major fit with them. We're a business, we don't want ANY mail blocked. They were pretty good at determining what to block, about 95% right, but it was the 5% of legitimate mails that they blocked that caused considerable problems.
They now use SpamAssassin and spam gets marked, but delivered. Much better for our end users. Some legit mail gets a SAPM tag, and some spam goes un-tagged, but it's much more managable for our users. (FWIW)
Regards, Tim
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