Hi I made mixed experience with CSA.
Their 'complaints' team does react quickly on complaints and also document the number of complaints they receive per CSA Member. But by 'reacting' they just acknowledge the complaints and document the complaint. Not much more happens to make the problem stop. A big known spamer in germany managed to become CSA member a couple of years ago. Well the CSA complaints count for this member skyrocketed. But it took more than two years for the CSA to finally get rid of that member. (Or more precisely, tell to get the ESP that was more or less in possession of the spamer, that they would loose their membership if they would continue their business with this particular customer) And as I now browse the 'members' list of CSA I can find at least one company that keeps being involved in sending spam (from the same customer mentioned above who then changed ESP) to email address that were harvested or obtained in a similar manner, but for sure not by double opt-in. So from the view-point of an ISP mail platform spamfilter operator, I am neutral. I don't score them negative nor positive at the moment. Scoring them for spam could impact a lot of legitimate email from serious members who paid to have their email less likely flagged as spam. Unfortunately the handfull of abusers who have become CSA members also prevent me from scoring them as ham. But I find it's a bit questionable if they ask for money from their members with the promise that their emails will less likely be tagged as spam. This is not the case, here in Switzerland at least as I believe. -Benoît Panizzon- -- I m p r o W a r e A G - Leiter Commerce Kunden ______________________________________________________ Zurlindenstrasse 29 Tel +41 61 826 93 00 CH-4133 Pratteln Fax +41 61 826 93 01 Schweiz Web http://www.imp.ch ______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
