John R. Levine writes: > Before you sue, it would be a good idea to read 47 USC 230, a Federal > law that specifically blocks services and software that block > offensive > material, with offensive broadly defined. It protects "good faith" > attempts at blocking, even if they block stuff by mistake.
Forgive me if this has been covered to death; I'm back from vacation, and slogging through the several thousand emails, 85% of which are spam. With Spews, Osirusoft, and other published blocklists, keep in mind that they don't really block anything. All they are is published lists of machines that spam, machines that support spam, or machines included in netblocks which spam. Disregarding for a moment the controversy over that last item (blocking machines who are merely neighbors of spammers, fellow customers of ISPs that allow spam), that's all these services are -- lists. SPEWS has never blocked an email. It can't; it's not involved in the transmission of email at all. It's other ISPs who consult these lists to decide which hosts to refuse to accept email from that are doing the blocking. So if example.com refuses to accept email from you because you're listed in SPEWS, SPEWS isn't blocking you, example.com is. And (IANAL) I think you'll have a great deal of trouble convincing anyone anywhere that they are obligated to receive any email from you or anyone else if they don't want to. If for instance I want to refuse all email from Brazil, or from people named Alfred, or with message IDs that are even numbers, or that contain the word "contain", or for any reason at all sensible or otherwise, I can do so. My inbox, my rules, after all. _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
