spam issues

[Tim Wunder]

On 7/30/2003 1:55 PM, someone claiming to be ronnie gauthier wrote:

> Not exactly, at least thats not how I see it. If enough users of an ISP or
> email suppliers complain they are blocked by one, big deal, blocked by dozens,
> then it begins to matter and the ISP's must take notice. We as an admin
> community have done nothing to stop the spam problem. Oh, some filteer, most
> have a TOS that they stick to but thats it. Hell, when it gets bad enough that
> congress looks into it you know that congress will shit on you with their
> solution. If it a drastic enough problem then we should deal with it ourselves.
> I know that blocking innocent users is not with the spirit of the Internet but
> any solution congress comes up with will be worse and we can remove blocks
> easily with a few edits. No so with whatever solution congress comes up with,
> you wont just edit that away.
> 

When our ISP blocked mail intended for my company (we're a small 
company, don't want to administer a mail server locally) based on RBL's, 
I pitched a major fit with them. We're a business, we don't want ANY 
mail blocked. They were pretty good at determining what to block, about 
95% right, but it was the 5% of legitimate mails that they blocked that 
caused considerable problems.
They now use SpamAssassin and spam gets marked, but delivered. Much 
better for our end users. Some legit mail gets a SAPM tag, and some spam 
goes un-tagged, but it's much more managable for our users. (FWIW)

Regards,
Tim