Re: Making Email Spam Free
[snip -- a local ISP is rejecting email from MSN intermittently]
DAVE CLARK <mediadc_at_email.msn.com> WROTE:
> Is this the result of laws passed to protect us? Don't
> know. What do you all think.
No, there is no law which requires any ISP to reject
spam. They are probably doing it because their
servers have been flooded with spam in the past,
preventing them from providing adequate email service
to their own customers.
Microsoft is not well-regarded by the Internet
community anyway. Whatever spam problems may have
come from MSN in the past may have led disgusted ISPs
to just give them an automated priority rather than
worrying about whether Microsoft has cleaned up its
customer base today.
What people here (and elsewhere) need to understand is
that spam is costing the ISPs a LOT of money, and they
aren't being compensated. User inconvenience is only
one of the issues they have to contend with.
The Internet was designed to be a cooperative medium,
not a free-for-all for exploitative practitioners.
Marketing and commercial interests had absolutely
nothing to do with designing and distributing the
technology. And the technology wasn't created for the
purposes of conducting business, solicited or
otherwise. We have to live with the compromises that
allow the system to keep functioning.
The only bad guys in the mix are the spammers. They
have been TOLD that what they are doing is hurting
everyone else and they don't care. They keep doing
it.
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Received on Fri Nov 17 2000 - 10:19:28 CST
