On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 07:19:53PM -0800, JC Dill wrote: > >From the latest EFF mailer... > > -------------------- snip snip -------------------- > * Mailing List Headaches? Contact us. > > Unfortunately, we've lately learned that more and more opt-in mailing > lists are being mislabeled as spam and wrongly blocked.
FUD. I'm unaware of any properly-run opt-in mailing lists that have been mislabeled as spam and "wrongly blocked". I am aware of a number of improperly-run mailing list which are either not opt-in (but claim to be -- a common spammer lie) or which are improperly run (without closed-loop confirmation) that are blocked. This is an entirely good thing, and should be encouraged in order to prod list-owners into behaving as responsible members of the Internet community. Of course, individual users may forget that they've signed up for something and report it as spam: but that's easily fixed simply by hanging onto all subscribe/unsubscribe logs permanently. (I've got mine, or at least I think/hope I do. They compress nicely. ;-) ) JC: perhaps you might want to share here the information that you sent to spam-l about the link between the EFF and well-known spamhaus Topica. ---Rsk
