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Re: [Asrg] A New Plan for No Spam / DNSBLS

2003-04-28 10:39:55
Larry Marks <larry(_dot_)marks(_at_)barberry(_dot_)com> wrote:
Along with "Best effort", you'll also come across the term "Common
Consent".

If you don't want to consent to handle e-mail traffic, then don't. If
you do, then handle it properly and deliver legitimate mail.

  Define "handle it properly"

  Define "legitimate email"

"Common consent" does not extend the right to say you will handle
mail and then to refuse. That's just fraud.

  Nonsense.

  Fraud is generally misrepresentation or misuse of contractual
agreements.  If a third-part ISP never contracted to accept mail from
you, then refusing to do so is entirely within their legal rights.

  Your kind of thinking encourages spammers to sue ISPs who block
their garbage, for "intefering with business practices."  If the ISP
never contracted to accept the spammers mail, then the judge *should*
toss the suit.  (Modulo whatever legal twisting lawyers do)

  Alan DeKok.
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