On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 10:14 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Randal, Phil wrote: > > > From http://www.constantcontact.com/pricing/index.jsp , they say: > > > > "Monthly fee is based on the number of contacts in your email list" > > > > There's an immediate conflict of interest - if they want to keep their > > income high, they're going to encourage customers with large mailing > > lists, regardless of the sources of those lists. > > ...and regardless of how many of those addresses always get 5xx responses. > > If it's that much of an annoyance, set up a tarpit for them. I don't have > any ethical problem doing this for a bulk mailer that repeatedly ignores a > 5xx that says "I will never accept any mail from you". > I've just had a look through the Barracuda 'Whitelist' - allow me to share a small part of it;
consolenergy.com consolidatedpapers.com consortaart.com consortia.org.il conspiracy-theory.org constablevillevillage.us constantcontact.com constantinevillage.us constellation.com constellationenergy.com constitution.us constitutionstate.us constructatlanta.com Seems white listing constantcontact is the done thing then. As it's the 4th of July tomorrow (American Independence Day) I'm half thinking that I should liberate the whitelist and all the Barracuda 'Custom' rules and 'give back to the open source community'. I'll sleep on it. I'm due a spell in prison. A few more months won't hurt.
