What I call spam you may call ham. What I call ham you might call spam.
One ring to control them all er one list to filter them all inherently
cannot
work, especially when people change their minds and decide to
"unsubscribe with extreme prejudice."
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "LuKreme" <krem...@kreme.com>
To: <users@spamassassin.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, 2009/December/07 09:22
Subject: Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?
On 7-Dec-2009, at 09:03, Charles Gregory wrote:
There's a need. A real genuine need for services like Habeas. But they
need to be *very* well managed and policed. And it seems, from some
complaints, that this is not happening....
How a service like HABEAS needs to work is that 1) It keeps a massive
database of email addresses that are known to either be bad, or to be users
who have specifically submitted their addresses as not accepting any
unsolicited unconfirmed emails, ever. A spammer — er, marketer, submits
their mailing list and it is 'cleaned' of all those addresses, then
submitted back to the spammer.
The spammer, in order to register with the service has to pay some amount of
money (probably a range of $0-$1,000,000 depending on the size of their list
and profit/non-profit status of the sender) that is held in a third party
trust. This is money that is deposited in addition to whatever charges there
are to clean the list. If the spammer sends any messages to an address that
was scrubbed, then the trust money is donated to some charity and the
spammers account with the service is revoked and their ENTIRE IP CLASS is
submitted to RBLs. In addition, bounce processing for the spam—er, marketing
email is handled by the service. Addresses that bounce are added to the
database of bad addresses. Spam complaints are added to the database of
opt-out addresses.
THAT service I would allow negative points to in my SA. I can't imagine any
other commercial whitelist that I would allow negative points for.
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