Re: [Asrg] Anti-spam laws do work, FYI. There's proof.

["Brian Bruns" <bruns at 2mbit.com>]

On Sunday, August 01, 2004 4:25 AM [EST], Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:

>
> I didn't.
>
> I demanded that ISPs who contracted with people before they imposed
> spam filtering (which, by the way, SPF allegedly is not) allow them
> to continue not to have it, and that new customers be made aware in
> totally clear terms before they accept the service the things that
> may cause legitimate mail they wish to receive not to be delivered.
>

You have NO right to demand how other ISPs manage their mail services,
much like spammers have NO right to demand that their supposed 'super
duper opt-in' mail get through to people.  If you take a look at the
fine print of ISP TOS/AUP contracts, most if not all ISPs reserve the
right to change their service as necessary in order to keep the system
secure and functioning properly.

It is unreasonable for you to expect a provider to turn off its mail
filtering services which block spam, viruses, etc.  If I were to turn
off all filtering on mail.sosdg.org, the server would be overwhelmed
in under 10 minutes.  That means none of my users, none of my staff,
none of the people who use that server for various services will be
able to do what they paid for.

People _expect_ spam filtering services these days.  That is why it is
turned on by default, and customers would have to ask to have it
turned off.  Usually in the providers I have worked, the customer is
asked to acknowledge the fact that if they turn off the filters, that
the provider can not be held responsible for any objectionable content
received afterwards due to their request.




-- 
Brian Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources
http://www.sosdg.org

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