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Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal



Adam Aube wrote:
Tom Allison wrote:


Spam RBL's are being attacked on the legal front which puts black lists in
jepardy.  The idea being that businesses have a legal right to solicit
their customers and a third party cannot block that.


Spammers will never win a case against RBL operators, because the RBLs
themselves do not actually block anything. It is the the individual
organization that decides what RBLs (if any) to use, and therefore it is
the individual organization which sets up the blocking that is preventing
the "legitimate solicitation of business".



http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/12/spam_king_vs_spamcop/

It's articles like this one that leave me in doubt. They did get repealed shortly after, but the fact that they made enough progress to block spamcop is something. It's a matter of time. 21 Billion USD can't get ignored for too long.



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