jdow Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:46 PM > Colin, bonded or not it is all spam; and, I do not want it. Got it? > Good. If I want something I will actively search for it. If I do not > want something I do not want mail about it clogging my mail box. If > I want email from a source that is otherwise spam in appearance I can > whitelist it MYSELF. If someone else chooses to delegate their own > whitelist authority to the likes of Billy G or the "BondedSender" > program then they get what they earned, lots of spam.
Maybe my understanding of the program is wrong but I was under the impression that Bonded Sender could only be used by marketers that pledged that they were sending to subscribers. I thought that if a spammer were to pay a bond and then have that bond ripped through in a few minutes with all the complains, Bonded Sender would revoke their license. According to their site, they must not exceed the allowable complaint rate. http://www.bondedsender.com/standards.jsp So with that in mind, it seems that it couldn't be abused by spammers. I don't like junk either. But if it's something I subscribe to, it seems reasonable that a whitelist (or with SA, just a weight toward negative) like Bonded Sender provides would save me from having to whitelist every legit sender. Is my understanding of the service or Microsoft's use of it incorrect? cheers, Colin Colin A. Bartlett Kinetic Web Solutions www.kineticweb.biz
