> > On Apr 4, 2025, at 7:57 PM, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > > I have no recollection of signing up in any form, and have not gotten an > email asking me to pay. I actually had no idea these were pay/limited > until your mail, as I figured free access to SAFE/CERTIFIED for relying > parties was part of the business model of charnging "high volume email > senders" to be certified as not spammers. (To be fair, my analysis of > 30 days of logs did not find any CERTIFIED or SAFE senders as spam.)
It IS part of the business model, which is why in more than 20 years we have never charged for queries or xfers, and we never will. Even though senders pay us, we consider the receivers to be our customers, and our first responsibility is, and has always been, to them. After all, isn't the whole purpose of a DNS cert list, and indeed Spam Assassin, to help keep email usable and to better identify good email versus spam so that receivers have to do a little bit less heavy lifting, and can focus their resources on actual spam? That is the *entire* reason for our being. Anne CEO ISIPP SuretyMail (the IADB Good Senders List, a/k/a "the other guys" :~) ) --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney; Legislative Advisor Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 CEO Institute for Social Internet Public Policy Dean Emeritus, Cyberlaw & Cybersecurity, Lincoln Law School Prof. Emeritus, Lincoln Law School Chair Emeritus, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop Creator of the term 'deliverability'; Co-Founder of the deliverability industry Counsel Emeritus, eMail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS)
