Dave Rand had written,
R> Oh, and after you've been blackholed by {ORBS}, don't bother sending them
R> mail. They use their own list to blackhole and expect you to get a Hotmail
R> account in order to talk to them. Great planning, that...
Ron Guilmette responded,
G> MAPS had the exact same problem some time back... If they backlisted you,
G> you couldn't even send them mail to tell them that you thought they had
G> made a mistake.
G> I called Paul Vixie on that. I don't actually know if he ever fixed it
G> or not.
Not likely. I wrote to Chip Rosenthal about it as well; Vixie intercepted
the message (it was not to Chip's personal address but to an admin address at
MAPS in reply to a message Chip had sent me), and Vixie said that if any
addresses there accepted email from the whole world, "those addresses would
just get spammed." My cogitative reaction was well, good, then the MAPS
project could see who was continuing to send or relay spam after having sworn
that they'd stopped, but the rest of Vixie's message was ... well, let's just
say that it made it clear that trying to present a point to him would be a
waste of time.
