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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:45:15PM -0400, Michael Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > I know that its been effective against our company in terms of
> > getting the attention of RoadRunner. Every time we send email to
> > our mailing list someone forgets they subscribed and uses SpamCop
> > or a similar service to complain. The end result is RoadRunner
> > (our corporate ISP) sends me a registered letter to start the
> > whole process over again. ("No, it wasn't spam, etc.")
> 
> 'Tis the problem. Complaints about legitimate mass email ties
> up bandwidth and causes other unintended consequences, while 
> the BadSpammers (those out of compliance with H.R. 95, which 
> requires an opt-out and prohibits faked headers) are unaffected.

BadSpammers? You just mean "spammers", right? There are no GoodSpammers.

> Still, even BadSpammers aren't *just* trying to annoy us (usually):
> There is some window open through which their potential 'customers'
> are supposed to reach them. Spam is lead generation, while their
> chief business problem is the filtering of leads.

No, their chief business problem is finding bulk-friendly ISPs who
won't kick them if they get caught. Logistics precedes anything else.

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