On 2023-04-08 01:20, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop wrote:
And that's why I'm still in favor of blocking spammer-hosting providers swiftly and broadly. It needs to affect the non-spamming customers, too, to be a strong economic incentive for keeping spammers out. Of course I also punch holes when contacted by affected e-mail users, but at least I have a chance to tell them that they're with a bad provider and are supporting criminal activities by letting themselves being used as human shields.
And see if I did something like that too many times, my customers would all leave me to go to a competitor that didn't. I would be empowering that competitor to exist by giving a clear opening for a market position that I chose to exit. Which means that then my net impact on the situation, after making too many of those blocks, would be exactly equivalent to me never having made the blocks at all. Which means all I effectively did was transfer my income stream to another party, the internet never changed. Nothing got better, I'm simply then an unknown martyr that no one wants to interview.
That's where the real problem lies, when you realize that there are only a handful of companies that can actually make an impact on what each other does. All you really end up doing is torturing your users, unless you run one of those few companies.
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