On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:00:38PM -0700, Brent Sims wrote:
> Not long ago I had the plug pulled on me because someone had
> subscribed to a very low traffic, subscription confirmation required,
> mailing list that I run. They received one mailing, which consisted of
> exactly what they were told they would get, but because they forgot they
> had subscribed a complaint was issued to my ISP who yanked the plug in
> order to avoid ending up on someone's black list.
That may have been the excuse your ISP fed you, but sites don't get
blacklisted under the circumstances you list above. Even if you *had* sent
this guy unsolicited email, that wouldn't have even bumped the needle on the
RBL. If your provider really felt they were at risk, they were being
irrational.
> The point and I believe the point of the original message in this
> thread is that sometimes those of us who actually play by the rules get
> nailed because some crazed lunatic doesn't have anything better to do with
> their time than run a blacklist.
Actually I think running a blacklist is one of the better things one can do
with their time. The RBL has had a significant impact on the amount of junk
email being puked across the Internet. If you think the right of people to
send junk email is more important then the right of people to control their
own servers -- which when all is said and done is all the RBL is, albiet writ
very large across the face of the net because so many providers agree with
how it's run -- than you and I part company in a really serious way.
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