On 7 Mar 2011, at 07:22, Douglas Otis wrote:
The BCP makes blanket statements that clearly overreach, as it logically
fails in its justification.
In most people's view, "Pay me to remove you from the blacklist I just put you
on" is a significant conflict of interest.
I'm sure it will interest you to know that two separate European consumer
protection agencies, OPTA (NL) and OFT (UK), have asked serious questions in
law enforcement circles (London Action Plan, etc) about the particular European
blacklist that uses this business model, having had many complaints of
extortion/racketeering from European Internet users who claim their mail server
IPs were held to ransom. With "Pay me to remove you from the blacklist I just
put you on" there is a very strong incentive to blacklist wide IP ranges as
miscellaneous escalations simply to collect larger amounts of removal fees. The
conflict of interest is substantial and should be flagged as extremely poor
practice.
Steve Linford
The Spamhaus Project
http://www.spamhaus.org
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