At 12:05 PM 2002-10-30 -0600, Tatum, Rich wrote:
> From: http://list-news.com/articles/02october/20021022.html
>
> ISPs Wrongly Block 1 in 8 Messages for Spam
> October 22, 2002 - 11:00am CST
>
> SAN FRANCISCO - ISPs incorrectly block 1 in 8 permission-based
> messages as unwanted email, according to a company
> specializing in getting permission email delivered....
Come on, did you read the article? This was mail that was formatted to be
blocked, using huge numbers of spam keywords and the like, so that they
could write this article which was nothing more than an advertisement for
their expert service to try to make sure that their spam does not get
clipped by spamassassin. Besides, "permission based" is a euphemism in the
world that that article came from for, "We have weblogs that show where
their email address was entered onto a web form." They won't show you
those logs, because if they have them, they probably generated themselves
with a script driven off of a millions CD and they need time to randomize
the ip addresses. The more honest ones drive the script through the web
server so that they are real web server logs.
I seriously doubt that one in eight of the mails that come through the sort
of mailing lists that most of us run here are being blocked by spam
blockers, unless one in eight of ordinary mails are blocked.
--
Take The Boulder Pledge Today
"Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the
result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters,
petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others.
This is my contribution to the survival of the online community." - Roger
Ebert -- nor will I vote for any candidate who solicits my vote via e-mail.
Nick Simicich - njs@scifi.squawk.com
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