> Large multinational firms get to choose their own policy for spam blocking, > they don't let an ISP tell them what to do. All you need is a MD of a > company they do business with being unable to send an email to the MD of > their company and heads will roll.
> If you want to persue your crusade against spam blocking then finding an > incidence of it affecting a multinational is a good way to start. In reality, since the multinational will control all the email servers that email passes through, they certainly wouldn't use an RBL that blocks themselves. but I was making the comparison easier for those that do not have an imagination as to the effects of legit email being blocked could have. > > do you think it is more acceptable to lose an email, rather than get a > > spam message a day? > > If it was 1 legit message vs 1 spam then no. However given a choice of 100 > spams vs 1 legit message, then sure I'll let that legit message be bounced. > In reality it's more like 1000 or more spams vs 1 legit message. Thats only because you don't send email to/from Asia. I personally send and receive at least 20 emails from Asia per day. And by using visi.com and ordb.org's RBLs, the spam that goes through is cut down... certainly not 1000 or more spams to 1 legit. i would say maybe 5-10 spam to 1 legit email for me. And if I use the spamcop RBL... that gets cut down to about 2-3 spams per 1 legit email. I haven't yet had a false entry in spamcop cause me to lose a legit email, but if that started happening I would drop spamcop and find something else. So... if suppose for people that do not send email to/from Asia, blocking ALL of Asia off wouldn't make the slightest difference to them. So hence RBLs that block all of Asia may indeed block out a lot of spam because American spammers are abusing the Asian servers/networks. However, for people that do communicate with Asia a lot, aggressive RBLs that liberally block Asian ISPs and networks just do not cut it. osirusoft is one that we will not use because of this. I invite you to see someone else trying to get off an RBL through NANAE... and see how wonderful the people are at NANAE: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=pan.20 02.08.17.06.13.16.459844.2802%40dawgsh*t.pile&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dia dvantage.%252Bnet%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26scoring%3D d%26selm%3Dpan.2002.08.17.06.13.16.459844.2802%2540dawgsh*t.pile%26rnum%3D 3 (sorry for the above... couldn't make it shorter).
