On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Ivan Pope wrote:
> What I meant was, do you try and stop people _sending mail back to_ Direct
> Mail users? Because that's what the effect of blackholing companies for
> having a 'drop-box' used by a 'spammer' is.
Um, unless I'm misunderstanding something terribly obvious, that isn't the
way it works. Sites on the 'black hole' list can _receive_ mail from
anywhere, including from organizations like mine who happily respect the
RBL, they just can't send it out to sites that observer the RBL list. That
is, after all, why it's called the "Black Hole" list. Anything can go in
but nothing can come out.
Your right of free speech, by the way, does not include the right to use
my press -- which is what spamming effectively does.
--Byron Howes
Systems Administrator
UNC General Administration
