Re: [Asrg] Re: Spam send/receive ratio

["Alan DeKok" <aland at ox.org>]

"Chris" <asrg at rebel.com.au> wrote:
> > > One of the distinguishing characteristics of a spammer is the
> > > imbalance between mail sent and mail received.
> 
> Totally Unforgivable Rubbish (TUR for short)
> 
> I recieve maybe a hundred emails each day. but when I send out to my mail
> list I send tens of thousands

  Really?  That's not how mailing lists work, so far as I know.

  The *list* re-sends the message to tens of thousands of recipients.
You don't.  Since each recipient has opted-in to the list, this isn't
a problem.

> under the above 'criteria' I automatically become a "spammer" when in fact I
> simply have a lot of potential customers ALL on a double opt in list.

  No.  You match a distinguishing characteristic of spammers.  This
doesn't mean you're a spammer.  It just means that your behavior
overlaps with that of spammers.

  This isn't news.  Everyone uses SMTP to send mail, and so do
spammers.  This doesn't make everyone using SMTP a spammer.

  Spammers have additional distinguishing characteristics which you
don't match.  Ergo, you're not a spammer.

  In other news, is everyone with a tattoo a criminal?  I've seen
"wanted" posters which list "tattos" as "distinguishing
characteristics" of a criminal.

> This is very blinkered reasoning.

  Please blink more often.  It might clarify your vision.

  Alan DeKok.

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