On Saturday 01 May 2004 13:57, jdow wrote: > From: "John Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Friday 30 April 2004 15:36, jdow wrote: > > > Dan, you are in an industry that is dominated by people who > > > harvest > > optout > > > > as a means of obtaining new addresses to spam. Do you seriously > > > wonder > > that > > > > people would ignore opt-out and merely blackball you? > > > > Dan said: Speaking as an operator of several double-opt-in mailing > > lists > > > > Double opt in is different than Opt out. > > > > Double Opt In is what you had to do to subscribe to THIS list. > > John, *I* am aware of the difference. "Mundanes" tend to lump all > bulk mailers and remailers into the same ball,
With grease and barnyard material added. Its the right ball for all bulk mailers. > particularly if they > have forgotten how to get off a list that they have forgotten > subscribing to. (I've seen a person who signed his email as an > administrator on a network at MIT do this one.) Many will toss the > name of the double opt in or confirmed opt in list at SpamCop as > their way of getting off, forgetting that SpamCop will remove all > trace of their ID from the message. > > This is why I generically do not like BLs as a solution. They seem to > try to hammer nails with a shotgun. No matter how you use the shotgun > to hammer that nail it's not an acceptable solution. I beg to disagree if its a 12 guage nail it will work fine. Hoyt
