On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Fabrice Scemama wrote:
> Reading that mail.com thread, I must consider that lots of honnest
> mail admins get annoyed, and that I still receive a huge number of spams
> every day. Sometimes, when you put too many security devices in your
> home, you get more annoyed than possible burglars -- and finally
> get burgled anyway. The whole mail.com purpose seems paranoid and
> more and less stupid to me. Just my 2 pence.
Unfortunately as far as I see, mail.com is blocking the site not because
it is an open relay, but de facto because they have a lot of users who are
subscribed to the mailing lists maintained on the blocked site and they
received too many messages, and they just cite the test as a justification
of their action.
And this can even be interpreted to a form of censorship, if we want to be
ridiculous.
Robert Varga
