On 7-Dec-2009, at 09:03, Charles Gregory wrote:
> There's a need. A real genuine need for services like Habeas. But they need
> to be *very* well managed and policed. And it seems, from some complaints,
> that this is not happening....
How a service like HABEAS needs to work is that 1) It keeps a massive database
of email addresses that are known to either be bad, or to be users who have
specifically submitted their addresses as not accepting any unsolicited
unconfirmed emails, ever. A spammer — er, marketer, submits their mailing list
and it is 'cleaned' of all those addresses, then submitted back to the spammer.
The spammer, in order to register with the service has to pay some amount of
money (probably a range of $0-$1,000,000 depending on the size of their list
and profit/non-profit status of the sender) that is held in a third party
trust. This is money that is deposited in addition to whatever charges there
are to clean the list. If the spammer sends any messages to an address that was
scrubbed, then the trust money is donated to some charity and the spammers
account with the service is revoked and their ENTIRE IP CLASS is submitted to
RBLs. In addition, bounce processing for the spam—er, marketing email is
handled by the service. Addresses that bounce are added to the database of bad
addresses. Spam complaints are added to the database of opt-out addresses.
THAT service I would allow negative points to in my SA. I can't imagine any
other commercial whitelist that I would allow negative points for.
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