Dear Kim, I am an online publisher who uses only a 100% opt in list. My concern with filters is not only I am not getting mail that I requested (even my own ...
Inline responses... this is rather long. ... From: <sentto-9417607-51-1051124297-chales=california.com@... ... To:...
Charles Chappell
chales@...
May 2, 2003 8:49 pm
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Hello all -- Following is an article from yesterday's (April 29) NY Times. It details a number of sites that were recently shut down as a result of ISP...
... Thank you, Tim. And I hope that you will agree that care and reasonableness is something which you have seen in all of my advocacy (I am still involved in...
Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
amitchell@...
May 14, 2003 5:53 pm
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...to talk to people who've been unable to get their legitimate mail through because of spam filters and blocklists. Please contact me via e-mail ASAP....
Hello all: This is my first time posting to the group. I hope this information will help someone: Too many of the the ezines I ask for get filtered to my...
Nobody Expects the Spamish Inquisition By Ed Duggan South Florida Business Journal May 19, 2003 Spammer block lists, litigation, and state and federal...
Here is one of the biggest cellular provider called NTT docomo in Japan. They provide an option to let users to specify blocking or allowing e-mails from the...
mizo0926
mizo0926@...
May 19, 2003 11:07 pm
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Web Vigilantes Give Spammers Big Dose of Their Own Medicine They Find Mass E-Mailers And Play Tricks on Them By MYLENE MANGALINDAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL...
Honestly, AOL has the right to spam its own members. So does any other organization... it's their own network, and their own dime. The internet is not...
Charles Chappell
chales@...
May 23, 2003 8:03 pm
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Collateral damage in the war on spam 'Blocklist' tactic repels some legitimate e-mail By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff, 5/28/2003 Philip Jacob, who runs a small...
Critics set up anti-SPEWS Web site By John Leyden The Register 27/05/2003 Critics of the SPEWS blacklist have set up a Web site highlighting their grievances...
... This article assumes that Whirlycott.net is not a spammer. But we don't know that to be the case. I'm not trying to say that Whirlycott.net is a spammer....
thanks justin for posting this.... i just had my ip blacklisted by spews.org, cuz of a spammer on the same ip block. i now have to move my entire server,...
Blackhole lists are a barbaric, biased, mistake-prone, and inefficient way to control spam. Worse.they too often hurt the innocent. Bill Wilson, CPCU, ARM,...
Bill Wilson
iiaavu@...
Jun 2, 2003 4:59 pm
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Spam blockers may wreak e-mail havoc By Declan McCullagh May 27, 2003, 4:00 AM PT http://news.com.com/2010-1071-1009745.html Here's an unhappy prediction: The...
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0503/30equal.html Spam filters' collateral damage Blocking devices can go too far, keep out e-mail users had...
I'm not suggesting that at all AND I'm not "whining." There are much more effective ways to block spam than server filtering and blackhole lists. Check out...
Bill Wilson
iiaavu@...
Jun 6, 2003 9:56 pm
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I'm going to take a purist standpoint... something I rarely do, but hear me out, as I do justify my position. Spam has been compared to a disease many times...
chales@...
Jun 9, 2003 5:48 pm
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... Then this approach would only work for individuals who run their own mail servers and not any decently sized company. Administering mail alone is a tough...
Please don't take my comments as an aversion on admins...God knows, you guys have a tough enough job. Our IT department fights this battle daily. The filters...
Bill Wilson
iiaavu@...
Jun 9, 2003 5:53 pm
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The filtering and permissions are done at the work station level, not at the server level, but I agree that there's still work to be done. Still, blackhole...
Bill Wilson
iiaavu@...
Jun 9, 2003 6:02 pm
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BT blocked by spam blacklist "Dangerously misconfigured, insecure or abuseable servers" the cause of the problem... Despite maintaining a strong anti-spam...
BBC News Monday J9 June, 2003 BT tackles spam blacklist BTopenworld has responded to being put on a spam blacklist by tweaking its servers in a move it hopes...
When spam filters go bad By Laura Miller June 19, 2003 Salon.com Trying to block junk mail, my cable modem company installed a system that prevented me from...
I wanted to pass this on because I was not getting my mail on AOL and my mother was not getting all of her mail on MSN. I have an opt in online newsletter, and...
kimberlee@...
Jun 24, 2003 7:03 pm
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seems as though mr. gates thinks "smart filtering" efforts will help. sounds like they are training their current filters which we all adore oh so much, to...
Hello Group, I am affiliated with the University of Oregon. I have several long on-going e-mail relationships with people met online. For several of these,...
... messages addressed to us blocked even before they reach bulk mail? hey lee- good question. i personally don't use hotmail or yahoo for anything *but*...