[Techtalk] Over-zealous spam filtering (by Raven's ISP?)

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 02:42, Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Saturday 21 September 2002 09:24 am, Raquel Rice wrote:
> > Why all the fuss over one small-time (sorry, Raven.  No offense
> > intended) mail server?  If the mail was DISCARDed rather than
> > REJECTed, you would never have known. 

> In the bigger picture, there are several maintainers of blacklists who have 
> the same ISP-wide zero-tolerance policy. This affects a lot of Internet 
> users. They have the same attitude- if spamcop.net allows one spammer, then 
> by gosh all of their traffic is evil. This is not realistic- ISPs do not have 
> instant control! They even use the same argument- blocking an entire ISP will 
> cause irate customers to rise up in fury and force the ISP to destroy the 
> evil spammers that infest their ranks.

Carla has the right response there.

Would you like LinuxChix to be suddenly unable to post to anyone who
uses one of the major spamblockers? It could happen.

I don't know about you, but I'd be rather irritated.



Jenn V.
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