Jenny Holmberg wrote:
>
> Ken Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I appologize to easily catorgorize this person as a spammer.
> > Howver, the bulk of email produced on the internet is from
> > spam sites.
> >
> > Jenny, how much experience do you have with spam sites?
> > have you designed, operated and maintained a spam site?
>
> I am postmaster at one of the largest ISPs in Sweden, and I have been
> working with antispam issues since 1995. I certainly have never been
> in any way involved in designing, operating and maintaining spam
> sites. But I am involved in running a mailinglist server, for
> confirmed opt-in mailinglists, and find the issues of how to handle
> mailinglist traffic in a non-abusive way quite important.
A very valid point of view. However you do not offer any proof of
the prior persons orignal posting.
Of course there are valid reasons why we should develop the most
effiecent method to deliver large quantities of email. Of course.
This is part of most large ISP's daily activies.
>
> Consider, for instance, that one of our mailinglist (say, the one
> about cat care and feeding) has a whole lot of subscribers from one of
> our competitors - not an unlikely scenario for a Swedish mailinglist,
> as there aren't really that many big providers here. When a listmail
> goes out, depending on our concurrencyremote settings , it's entirely
> possible that that provider's mailserver will be tied up handling the
> list mail for quite some time. This might upset them - I know I'd get
> upset if someone was doing it to my servers. In fact, I've been forced
> to temporarily block maillist servers which behaved that way - not
> because the mails themselves were spam, but because the behaviour of
> the listserver caused problems for my servers.
Excuse me, My point was not a valid email list. My point was the
original poster did not present a valid argument why this activity
should occur.
We are not stupid. We know this type of activity is valid for
a norrmal ISP.
My point is: shall we provide technology to pirates?
<Please excuse me for deleting the rest of yoru email..
I agree with you on your points. My only disagreement
is that we are handing away exploitive technology to
abusive people.
Not only are we giving away exploitive technology,
we are helping them become rich. And hence offering
them a step up into the uppper reaches of society.
Do you want to support pornographers becoming the
benefactors in your local town. I do not want to.
Ken Jones
