Re: [Asrg] Position paper, in zipped HTML

Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 07:45  PM, Chris Lewis wrote:
>
> > Rodney's had the obviously necessary feature of "domain-wide" opt-out 
> > - why _shouldn't_ a corporate domain be able to opt out?
>
> All my systems have one. There's no reason not to, and many good reasons 
> to allow it, IMHO. especially with the proliferation of personal domains 
> where all addresses are valid and forwarded to a single real email 
> address, usually with no clean way of finding out what address it went to.
Or corporate ones, where the corporation gets to decide how the email 
system gets used.
> > Rodney's list immediately showed why no-one will ever accept a global 
> > opt-out list:  within a week, domains comprising on the order of 60 
> > million email address had opted out
> (shrug). that's the wrong attitude, but I've seen it. Better attitude: 
> why worry about people who don't want your mail anyway? All you do is 
> piss them off and make them less likely, not more likely.
The "pissing in the community swimming pool" argument has never deterred 
spammers before, why should it now? :-(
The DMA was dead-set against it.  We seemed to have changed their mind 
in the meeting we had with them.  They reneged almost immediately 
thereafter.
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