On 1/8/2019 12:43 PM, Jim Popovitch via mailop wrote:
For everyone who says "extortion" is it not legitimate to question their motives for saying so? Let me be clear, the folks that I hear make the extortion claim, all provide competitive offerings or sell fee-based deliverability consulting services. O.o
When a play-for-play DNSBL claims, "trust us, we're NOT allowing pay-for-play to influence our blacklisting decisions" - no matter how true that statement is - or how ethical is that DNSBL - such a claim itself is involves a biased conflict of interest. This is why many consider it an unethical practice - no matter how ethical the organization is (or seems to be) which attempts that business model.
And for anyone considering that business model - keep in mind that running a DNSBL is already dangerous enough - since you're already (in some cases) harming the incomes of organized-crime organizations. Then considered that such criminals (whose income is harmed by blacklistings!) might be even MORE "triggered" by the "pay up, or you'll stay blacklisted" message. I didn't even want to say this because you'll probably say, "Rob, you're just trying to scare off the competition" - but I can't let this go unmentioned because anyone who might to down that path needs to have been warned - so that they'll at least take precautions.
-- Rob McEwen https://www.invaluement.com _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
