AB>> And they should. They should suffer for choosing an ISP that AB>> disrespects its own acceptable use policy, and gets itself into AB>> some kind of blackhole or another. What the customer must do is
Oh come on. It is a common knowledge that at least some of these relays are too quick to add whole netblocks and too slow to explain why they did that or how to make this not happen again. And the ISP couldn't care less what some freak out there thinks about its policies - its responcibility is its own paying clients and not convinvcing some trigger-happy sysadmin jumping out of his pants to be BOFH-like and blacklist whatever possible without too much investigation. It is impossible to prevent sending email from a customer of an ISP to any address on the internet - be the mail contents UCE or not. It is not possible for the ISP to know if the content of the message is UCE or not. So what the hell you want them to do? Cut their own throats by terminating contracts with paying customers just because some obsucre email address claiming to be sysadmin demands that? This all "spam blocking" fun have gotten by far out of proportion nowdays. Every week, and later - almost every other day I hear from legitimate users having their legitimate emails blocked because of some "spamblocking" usually from third-party "relay lists" that answer along the line of "somebody from your country once sent spam, so we blocked the whole class A - if you want to send email again, you better choose another country to live or piss off". Do you propose for these users to start hopping ISPs (on the way convincing all relatives and acquaintances to change their address books) in hope they will find one that would satisfy the spamblockers? Do you really think this is the solution for anything? For the spammer to change ISP is a matter of one configuration setting in his spam machine. For the legitimate Joe User is like moving to another city. So who do you want to punish? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-50-624945 /\ JRRT LotR. whois:!SM8333 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
