On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Steve Linford <linford(_at_)spamhaus(_dot_)org>
wrote:
In most people's view, "Pay me to remove you from the blacklist I just put
you on" is a significant conflict of interest.
There is also a significant difference in "Pay me to remove you from the
blacklist I just put you on" and "you'll be automatically removed in 7
days, but if you cannot wait, you can also pay to get processed faster",
don't you think?
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.
I actually fail to see what consumer protection agencies have with the issue
to do: normally mailservers are run by companies.
But anyway, blacklists have always drawn heat. Did that stop Spamhaus, for
example?
We're beating a dead horse here: majority of the messages have indicated
that charging for expedited delisting causes a conflict of interest, but
charging for using the list doesn't. I disagree, but can live with it (isn't
the first time I disagree with the majority, won't be the last I guess ;-)
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Mr. Esa Laitinen
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