Re: [Asrg] 7.c Mass Mailers, reliability, and lack thereof

At 2:08 PM -0800 3/27/03, Brad Templeton wrote:
> Stories of innocent sites improperly blacklisted are legion.
This has a certain irony for me.  Several weeks ago I signed up for 
several of the JamSpam lists.  The lack of traffic on those lists 
(none) kind of surprised me, but I was busy, so I didn't think much 
about it.
Yesterday I decided to test the lists.  After a bit of 
experimentation I discovered that in fact I'd never been signed up. 
Topica, which runs the lists, is dropping all mail from my domain on 
the floor without any notification.
That's particularly ironic, given that Topica has, on more than one 
occasion, allowed *other* people to sign my addresses up for their 
lists without confirmation.
P.S. And we won't get into how Topica's web confirmation system 
falsely implies that I won't be able to join until I give them a 
bunch of personal information.  And *that* was when I was trying to 
sign up for the JamSpam privacy list!
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/        Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/   Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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