Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Topica and SBL

[Matt]

John, That's part of it, but that part was only speculative.  Topica does harvest from the Web and newsgroups for their spam for sure. Topica is a very shifty company that likes to juggle address blocks.  In order to avoid listings, they have an active campaign to encourage people to whitelist their list servers.  They were a Habeas client, but they had their status pulled very quickly.  Now they have tricked Bonded Sender into list them, and I assure you, that won't last long either if Bonded Sender wants to maintain any clout in the community (be your own judge). Matt John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: <TREADING LIGHTLY>   I think what Matt maybe saying, is that even if legit messages come through Topica, Topica may be harvesting those addresses from the legit messages for use in unintended ways, AKA spam.   John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill Landry Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Topica and SBL   Wow, what does any of this have to do with delivering legitimate messages rather than deleting them?  I do not intentionally deliver spam from any source, including these - but I do deliver the legitimate messages sent from any source (ah, the true benefits of a spam weighting system).  You, on the other hand, summarily delete anything that may come from a source of spam, whether the message is legitimate or not.  I simply do not understand this philosophy, nor that you would argue in favor of it.   Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Topica and SBL   This took actual research to figure out :)  Topica is absolutely a spam house, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them populating their database with addresses and list demographics from Topica.com.  Many of the lists that Topica sends out are auto-subscribed to by a bot that they operate, so they are merely re-distributing much of the content. -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =====================================================