On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:24:57AM -0400, Gene Grimm wrote: > Speaking as an ISP that has to deal with spam complaints from our clients, > most people consider it spam if it was unrequested -- thus the definition of > Unsolicited Commercial Email. It's bad enough to have to deal with junk ads > through snail mail, but now we have to deal with junk ads in electronic > mail. At least with snail mail the advertisor has to foot the whole bill of > the ads so they have to budget their advertising. What irritates me is when > the spammers try to claim that they are sending out their junkmail "in > accordance to federal legislation" and refer to some House or Senate bill. > To the best of my knowledge, there still isn't any actual statute that has > been signed into law regarding spam.
There is a big difference between spam with a legitimate reply to and valid bounce address, that will in fact bounce back. spam with a forged reply to and where bounces bounce is a whole different issue. YMMV > >From Glenn Hocking: > > Problem seems to be that GE and Pizza Hut (and others) send out spam > themselves so end up on the lists. > > Seems that one persons advertising email is another persons spam..... rblsmtpd -a accept list Of course when most of sprint is in the spamblock that doesn't work. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/ Content/site management, online commerce, internet integration, Debian linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
