On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:58:32AM -0400, Omar Thameen wrote: > 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.
> 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). I doubt it. Like Mr. Rhame said above - there is just no incentive (actually negative incentive) for most spammers to "clean" their address list via such a global opt-out list. Why should they? Cleaning their lists means they hit fewer people. David -- David Shaw | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | WWW http://www.jabberwocky.com/ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson
