1) Is anyone here part of this arrangement?
Not I.
2) Are people here happy that a group of individuals, ISPs etc are operating in this way? I'd prefer to see 'offenders' being approached and given the opportunity to mend their ways before unilateral action is taken.
I agree with a number of the other people who have replied to this message. While Paul Vixie's approach to adding people to the RBL is the safest, it does however not address the narrow timewindow that you have to stop SPAM from being a problem. I think that for an anti-SPAM system to be effective you need to add sites the the list as soon as possible. A system that added people to the list if there were `resonable grounds' while allowing ISPs to remove themselves from the list if they can show that their addition was in error seems to be the best solution. Afterall this is what happens with our current justice system. If there are resonable grounds to suspect that I have commited a crime then I can be arrested on the spot. It is then up to me to convince the authorities that I am innocent. This allows us to get the truly guilty people off the streets in the minimum ammount of time, by sacrificing a small amount of convienience for those people who are falsly accused. Is this how we want to run the Internet SPAM Problem???? Who knows? I dont make the rules! =)
3) Has anyone any opinion on whether a group acting in this way forms a cartel which restrains trade? I feel it might well do.
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