Is this something that we list owners/providers can set up in an open fashion and run legitimately, perhaps not-for-profit?
Obviously, there would be a number of issues to tackle like who would maintain it and how to ensure that unscrupulous people don't get a hold of the address list (or pollute it with valid addresses). Omar On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 04:02:05PM -0400, murr rhame wrote: > On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, David Shaw wrote: > > > They are extremely useful, though not in the way intended by > > their owners, since as you say, any email that mentions them > > can safely be chucked.. > > I have yet to hear of any removal site that passes the simple > test of setting up a new email account and submitting it to an > op-out list. That account will start receiving spam within > hours. For most spammers, there is no incentive to honor an an > op-out list. They could care less if they piss off a thousand > people as long as one person in a thousand buys the product. > > > - murr - >
