From: Jussi Silvennoinen (no email)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 15:35:32 EST
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> Aren't there enough webmail providers yet? Most are used by spammers and
> identity fakers anyway.
How would that be defined? And what is the basis for this fantastic
conclusion? This service runs with a 7-digit userbase.
> Have you really been careless enough to use a valuable domain for your
> public webmail service?
Valuable domain? A domain is worth $5 and the time to write one email.
What drugs are you on?
> Did you forget to set up a use policy allowing you to reimburse the
> SORBS penalty from that abuser?
Again, it's a free webmail. Of course it's only a small part of our
service portfolio.
> If so you well deserve to pay these 50$ yourself.
Typical propellerhead approach.
> Don't get me wrong, I am not an advocate of SORBS, they even had my IP
> incorrectly blacklisted as dynamic which caused me a lot of problems and
> took a long time to get solved. But as long as not all nations sue their
> spammers I am happy that private organisations like SORBS take on this
> task.
>
> I agree that it is not fair to donate the money to a charity chosen by
> Matthew Sullivan but I guess this is his "payment" for running SORBS.
> For my part I would rather have him pay some staff and let the payees
> vote for a charity they want to support.
The problem is that if a person or an animal, my dog for example, sends an
email to , WHAM, the IP is listed.
Some fools have put credibility behind this foolishness, thus for example
the capital area national health system preferredMX-box uses this list. I
guess some vital pieces of clue were stuck in the pipe heading their
way...
-- Jussi
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