-----Original Message-----
From: David Beierl [mailto:dbeierl@;attglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 2:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: One blacklist to rule them all, and in the darkness bind
them (was Re: [spamcon-general] I have a spam-related dilemma. How shoud
I deal with it?)


>However if that network is providing an 
>email service to clients, is it perhaps at least incumbent on the provider 
>to supply the clients with a list...of exactly where they 
>can receive mail from, and where not?

I couldn't agree more.  The issue is not one of not wanting to prevent spam, it's an 
issue of what the definition of 'spam' is.  It's like the old saying that one man's 
trash is another one's treasure.  As was pointed out in a previous post, just because 
one person defines mail from Brazil as spam deosn't mean that I do.  I norder to have 
a truly effective solution for spam it needs to be able to take those differences into 
consideration so different people are allowed to use their own definitions.

The idea posted previously about using a server's outgoing mail to define your 
whitelist is the only propsed solution I've heard so far on how this can effectively 
be done.  Are there any others out there?


>...some of the apparent bullying and end-justifies-the-means 
>posturing by blacklisters may be eroding their heretofore exclusive claim 
>on the territory. 

And with it, the credibility of the entire cause of developing a good method for 
erradicating spam.
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