On 17 August 2017 at 19:30, David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> Spamcop.net should not be compared to the extortionist sites, nor the > email vendors. It's honest, and living on a shoestring. > On a shoestring? They're part of Cisco. They run an RBL, so they can still block shared servers. I still put them on the evil side. > And note that it's the _corporate email providers_ who charge money to > anyone who gets reported for spamming: that's why I used that particular > example. > The RBL that blocked my former employer asked for money to get a faster resolution. That's extortion. And there's a precedent for considering RBLs tortous interference: Spamhaus vs E360, which from reading Wikipedia and Spamhaus's own coverage, you'd think Spamhaus won. They lost: the $3 symbolic damages remained. Stewart
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