> From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > OK - it's interesting that of all of you who responded this is the only person who is doing it right.
I find this comment interesting because I don't agree with using spamhaus, spamcop, or other similar services to determine whether mail should be dropped/rejected. Systems can easily be errantly flagged - or temporarily flagged - for unknown periods of time. Our ISP provider had an extremely broad range of addresses blocked about a year ago because of systems compromised on networks not belonging to our company. For a period of several days, our company was effected - seeing large numbers of bounces from systems rejecting because the range was listed. This caused huge disruptions for our company, not to mention the potential for significant losses of income. If you were one of our customers expecting communication and are not receiving replies for several days - are you blaming that on your own IT department for using a blacklisting service? ...the actual comprimised system? ...or my company?Customers don't want to hear that the problem is someone else's. It becomes my problem. That is just one of a handful of scenarios which have pursuaded me to eliminate their use on my system. Unfortunately, I have no control over the potential for the above situation repeating itself... - Skip
