Re: [cobalt-users] Spam blocking

["VFastlink Support Team" <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The real question is how to prevent them from reaching your network pipe to
begin with.  They still eat bandwith even when you block them, albeit not as
much.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:56 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Spam blocking


> >
> > Spam is abusing the ability to e-mail, BUT Blacklisting stops
> > innocent peoples ability to use email.
>
> No, it doesn't. It simply blocks their email that is coming from certain
> places. They can still use email and they don't have to go to divorce
> court to find another provider or smarthost their email. Nobody is
> prevented from sending email because of a blacklist.
>
> >
> > And to be truly honest most email programs now come with a mail
> > filter and the end-user can chose what he/she wants to receive.
>
> And that requires the recipient to spend money to fight spam. Those
> filters also have false positives, and any email caught in that way will
> go unread and neither the sender nor the recipient will know they didn't
> get the mail. At least with blocking, if the sender's server is properly
> set up, they will get a bounce message.
>
> > Surly its their choice anyway.
>
> And it's their choice as to what provider they use and the receiving
> network's choice as to who they want to communicate with.
>
> I say all this after having been blocked because my former host was spam
> friendly. I left them. It was not an easy task to move. They are no
> longer spam friendly after apparently learning the costs of hosting
> spammers, but the attitude they displayed at the time made me realize I
> needed to move. I had a choice. I could be part of the problem by
> staying there and supporting spam, or part of the solution by voting
> with my $$.
>
> -- 
> C2003 Dan Kriwitsky
> 
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