Re: Re[2]: buydomains.com and other spammers

From: Charles Daminato (chuck@tucows.com)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 16:31:36 EST


<personal opinion>
The thing about spam... It's only a delete key away from no longer being
a problem. Just like junk mail - straight to the garbage. Considering
the volume of messages I get a day, less than 1% of the time I'm hitting
delete.

Educate your users on this wonderful tool, and the problem's solved *heh*
</personal opinion>

Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
chuck@tucows.com

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, William X Walsh wrote:

> Tuesday, Tuesday, December 04, 2001, 5:40:33 AM, Spy OpenSRS Mail wrote:
>
> > We always can always remove the block temporarily. Meanwhile we block
> > everyone who spams, registrars included.
>
> > As for not letting your ISP make your decisions. That is why they make
> > chocolate and vanilla. You can use whatever ISP you desire.
>
> I don't agree here. ISPs should not be interfering with
> communications at all. And you could find yourself on the wrong end
> of a lawsuit if your filtering causes a damage to a business
> transaction of some kind (including a domain renewal).
>
> Educate users, provide users with the ability and tools to control
> filters on their mailboxes, don't take the responsibility yourself.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
> --
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