On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 11:31:45 -0600, "Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop" <mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
>Just a point of order (that's not quite the right term but you get the gist): > >> As you say there is nothing to stop a large operator from blocking a small >> operator simply because they can. > >I'm not sure where the OP is from, but this has actually been litigated and is >settled law in the U.S. and has been for more than 20 years. In fact "my >server, my rules" is enshrined in our Federal law (of course not so succinctly >or in nearly as straightforward a manner). And, I just recently found my "MAPS DEFENSE TEAM" t-shirt from an episode that helped baked this into the crust. (One of life's lovely moments came when I discovered that one of my deliverability support clients at my new employer was Nielsen, who had acquired Harris Polls a while back (the spammers who sued MAPS). Nobody there had a clue about what had happened in that episode, and their anti-spam, anti-fraud measures were so thorough that my innocent attempts to open a seed account to test their countermeasures were repulsed so strongly that I found myself permanently barred from ever applying to be a reviewer/poll respondent.) mdr -- The hits just keep on coming for poor "Nadine". See the sad tale of email lists gone horribly wrong at <http://www.honet.com/Nadine/> F - IW AA #2157 GEVNP _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
