I think you're reading more into it than is there. Verizon didn't deliver what it promised or, to say it differently, Verizon didn't deliver what their customers had a reasonable expectation of receiving. That's the issue.
The allegation, and I think it is probably true, is that Verizon indiscriminately decided to block the IP space of certain countries. We also block the IP space of Korea, China - you know the list, but the difference is that all of our customers know we do it and don't have a problem with it. We only have a couple of customers who want mail from certain of the bad venues and we don't block those venues WRT their mail delivery. As long as your customers buy into what you are doing or at least know up front, there is no issue with blocking countries or doing just about anything else. No damage has been done to anyone. OTOH, when some refugee from McDonalds tech tells the customer that's what we're doing and tough luck, well, that's where the rubber meets the road. A class action makes sense because the individual damages are probably small, but there are a lot of customers who were affected. Yeah, the lawyers will make a lot of money, but if it wasn't for them, all of us Mickey Rooney sized peons wouldn't have a snow ball's chance to make the Jolly Green Giant stop stepping on all our rose bushes. All of our customers want us to do whatever we can to kill the flow of Spam. They know there will be some false positives, but we deal with them on a case by case basis. My $0.02 FWIW. Thanks, Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 1:56:02 PM, Darrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dsic> This kinda scares me. Could this potentially set a precedence that Dsic> companies can be sued for blocking mail? i.e. You get sued for blocking Dsic> mail. We all block some legitimate mail at some point.. Thats the nature Dsic> of the game. Dsic> Darrell Dsic> ------------------------------------------ Dsic> invURIBL - Intelligent URI filtering plug-in for Declude. Stops 85%+ of Dsic> SPAM with the default configuration. Download it today - Dsic> http://www.invariantsystems.com Dsic> Marc Catuogno writes: >> >> That is f-ed up right there... >> >> The damned lawyers are gonna get rich and every VZ customer will get a >> coupon for a free day of service. >> >> Marc >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darrell >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 2:02 PM >> To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com >> Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Verizon Faced With Lawsuits Over Blocking eMail >>>From Foreign IP Addresses >> >> Verizon Communications has been hit with several lawsuits as a result of the >> >> company's policy of blocking email from IP addresses in foreign countries in >> >> an effort to reduce spam. The complaint asks that Verizon cease blocking >> email and that it compensate customers for losses on behalf of business >> customers. A second class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of residential >> >> customers. In addition, a New Jersey businessman has filed a lawsuit >> against Verizon because he says his email has been blocked from getting to >> his customers. >> >> http://www.securitypipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163101524 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> DLAnalyzer - Comprehensive reporting for Declude Junkmail and Virus. >> Download a copy today - http://www.invariantsystems.com >> >> --- >> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To >> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and >> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found >> at http://www.mail-archive.com. >> --- >> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >> >> >> --- >> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >> --- >> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To >> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and >> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found >> at http://www.mail-archive.com. Dsic> Dsic> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dsic> Check out http://www.invariantsystems.com for utilities for Declude And Dsic> Imail. IMail/Declude Overflow Queue Monitoring, SURBL/URI integration, MRTG Dsic> Integration, and Log Parsers. Dsic> --- Dsic> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To Dsic> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and Dsic> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found Dsic> at http://www.mail-archive.com. ---- Don Brown - Dallas, Texas USA Internet Concepts, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetconcepts.net (972) 788-2364 Fax: (972) 788-5049 ---- --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
