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Re: [Asrg] 6. Proposals - depracate all list/bulk mailing and changeto RSS

2003-12-02 19:23:20
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:22:42PM +1030, Chris wrote

I don't want to have to keep reminding myself to "check my feed" or
have YAP(yet another app) on my desktop and they don't do RSS anyway

Are you going to force the airline companys to set up a feed for me?

  For much the same reason we had to shut down open relays... the answer
to your question is "yes".  They were convenient, but were also massively
abused.  A one-to-one answer to a question is one thing.  Big email
shotgun blasts aimed at the entire internet are totally another.

  Some time ago, I made a rather sarcastic posting defying marketeers to
set up their own "unfiltered ISP", and watch current big ISPs collapse
overnight as millions of "eager double-opt-in-subscribers" defect to the
marketeers' ISP in order not be deprived of their newsletters.  It looks
more reasonable as time goes on.  With all the complaints about false
positives, why don't people set up unfiltered ISPs ?  Why doesn't
someone put up or shut up ?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org>
Email users are divided into two classes;
1) Those who have effective spam-blocking
2) Those who wish they did

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