On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:31:49PM -0800, David Masterson wrote: > Hmmmm. If it was truly "opt-in", why would they need to avoid > filters? They could simply have their customers white-list them.
If the ISP sets up some spam filtering program that deletes everything suspected to be spam and doesn't give the customer the option of changing the filter. One year ago, a discussion mailing list that I run (ffml.anifics.com) had the same IP address as another site that had an affiliate program (its affiliates tended to send spam) and a mail forwarding service (spam sent to a mail forwarder and then reported to spamcop ended up blaming the forwarding service). As a result, that IP address got blacklisted by osirusoft. It turned out that the pacbell.net ISP used osirusoft, and mail from any host listed in osirusoft was deleted automatically (SpamAssassin assigns a score of 2.7 to hosts listed in osirusoft, which isn't enough by itself to tag a message as spam). Several members on my mailing list had that ISP and contacted me asking why they couldn't get their messages. I told them to ask their technical support to stop filtering us. They did so, but their technical support refused to do anything about the filter! So, I think that's why opt-in mailing list owners want to avoid being filtered in the first place, because ISPs can be overzealous in filtering spam sometimes. Also, the customer might not be tech-savvy enough to setup a whitelist even if his ISP allows it. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
