On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:13:36PM -0000, Peter Campion-Bye is rumored to have said: > > But why are people using it?
Because it's an indicator of being a legitimate sender. Whether it be an individual or large marketing firm is irrelevant, IMHO. I'm a real person sending legitimate mail to various persons or organizations, so why shouldn't I use it? > Do you regularly send email that has so many of the characteristics of > spam that it needs Habeas to get it through? > I can see why some mailing lists or marketing organizations might use it > but I really don't understand why an individual would. Regularly? I don't think so. But you never know - I could forward a spammy joke, or a news article with the "V" word, or be forced to relay through a server that's on a bunch of DNSBLs (at a hotel or hotspot, for example), or... There's a lot of reasons why an individual might want to use it. The more people use it, for personal or commercial reasons, the stronger of an indicator it becomes. I use it because there's no reason not to, except for the occasional (adjective deleted) admin who gives the test a positive score. ;) -- "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
