At 12:05 PM 2002-10-30 -0600, Tatum, Rich wrote:
Come on, did you read the article? This was mail that was formatted to be blocked, using huge numbers of spam keywords and the like, so that they could write this article which was nothing more than an advertisement for their expert service to try to make sure that their spam does not get clipped by spamassassin. Besides, "permission based" is a euphemism in the world that that article came from for, "We have weblogs that show where their email address was entered onto a web form." They won't show you those logs, because if they have them, they probably generated themselves with a script driven off of a millions CD and they need time to randomize the ip addresses. The more honest ones drive the script through the web server so that they are real web server logs.From: http://list-news.com/articles/02october/20021022.htmlISPs Wrongly Block 1 in 8 Messages for Spam October 22, 2002 - 11:00am CST SAN FRANCISCO - ISPs incorrectly block 1 in 8 permission-based messages as unwanted email, according to a company specializing in getting permission email delivered....
I seriously doubt that one in eight of the mails that come through the sort of mailing lists that most of us run here are being blocked by spam blockers, unless one in eight of ordinary mails are blocked.
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