On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:03:04 +1200, "Brian Gibbons"
From: "Simon Byrnand"
[half hearted effort to block spam] (And in that category I include manual blocking of huge swarths of ip space, outright blocking based on most RBL blacklists, Mailmarshall, and Challenge response systems, all of which have unacceptable collateral damage
Well said.
People may be interested that NZ marketing companies (as in operating 100% opt in e-mail lists) have advised that around 20% of their e-mails are getting blocked by anti spam type technologies (esp Mail Marshall) which is actually quite shocking that such a high percentage of e-mails that people want to receive are being blocked. DPF -- Blog: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz E-mail: david(a)farrar.com ICQ: 29964527 MSN: dpf666(a)hotmail.com