From: Andrzej Filip <anfi(_at_)Box43(_dot_)pl>
...
This year I had to solve the following email delivery problem:
* the receiving site send to /dev/null messages classified as spam
* the sending site was some time ago (4 month+) an open relay for a
short period
* the receiving site used RBL with "no retests" policy, so the sending
site was listed "for ever"
[It took a few days to be detected by sender and recipient and a few
days to fix]
Are you ready to defend RBL/anti-spam filtering use in such way ?
...
YES!
When you agree that the recipient is the only party with standing to
determine what is spam and what to do about it, you necessarily also
agree that the recipient can be an idiot and use foolish filtering
policies.
If the intended recipient of your mail does not want it, there is
no problem unless you continue to try to send it. Whether your
intended targets are rejecting your mail because it is spam or
because they are idiots, it is all their decision.
It is none of your business whether the targets of your mail pick
kooky and silly DNS blacklists (there are plenty of those) or they
pick ISPs that choose unreliable hardware and software and loses lots
of incoming mail (there are also plenty of those). If your message
absolutely must get through, then hire a courier or force the targets
of your email to hire ISPs that will accept it.
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com
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