From: "Chris Santerre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Fred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >Brian Godette wrote:
> >> Is someone's politics showing?
> >>
> >> 2.5 OB_URI_RBL URI's domain appears in ob.surbl.org
> >> [www.KerryPicksEdwards.com is blacklisted in URI]
> >> [RBL at ob.surbl.org]
> >
> >
> >From the surbl.org website:
> >ob.surbl.org - OutBlaze spamvertised sites
> >OutBlaze is kindly providing a list of spamvertised sites which are now
> >going into ob.surbl.org. The list appears to be quite good,
> >detecting about
> >70% of spams while triggering about 0.1% false positives. The
> >list has about
> >20,000 entries.
> >
> >
> >I would contact OutBlaze and find out why they have it listed.
> >
>
> There was some discussion on this on the spam-l list. It is a question of
> policy and opinion. They did send out Unsolicited Bulk email. But CANSPAM
> makes it 'ok' to do this for politics.
>
> The discussion seemd to point to the idea that antispam people don't agree
> that it is 'ok' to do this. And some people have been blocking it.
>
> IMHO I think all political unsolicited bulk email should be blocked. But I
> have a larger responsibility to more users of SURBL. So I didn't add it to
> [WS].
Chris, I have received telephone spam from both parties here. I tell
both that I am on the do not call list. I say I surely realize that they
are not bound by that list. However, they might be wise to consider that
a person on that list does not like to be needlessly bothered by their
telephone nonsense. Their call makes their candidate look like a most
inconsiderate lout. I then ask them if this is what they intended.
The same goes for email spam. Candidates that email spam me are showing
precisely the kind of arrogance and lack of character that will inspire
me not to vote for them. It's in their interest that my spam blocker
marks the email as spam so it does not get into my regular mailbox and
raise my irritation level. It sounds like the political organization
mentioned above is a collection of idiot louts.
{^_^}
