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Originally posted by Tipsy
You're so very, very wrong there. The spamhaus et al blacklists are an even bigger pain in the ass than the fucking idiot spammers themselves. Being too lazy or too dumb to run a proper blacklist and chucking out whole chunks of the Internet is not the way to go. It truly does make e-mail unusable. The spammers may for the most part be dumb scum but the Spamhaus type organisations truly make e-mail pointless.
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I only said they are not being ddosed. I did not mean they are cool. But since you touched this, I say that I do not agree with you. They are not cool, but they are not that bad.
Actually, I do some small mailers from time to time - just notifications to my registered customers about updates. And trust me - only one time I noticed I got into spamcop database and I was cleared out of there after I run their open relay check. But I got banned with different small (sometimes big) e-mail service providers all the time. I can't write to them all each time. This is what really stupid. I push 800 e-mails once or twice per month and they ban me because 2 or 3 addresses happen to be on the same provider - they consider it spam when they see 2-3 similar emails to their different addresses in line.
I would be much more happy if there was only one good global blacklist which everyone would be using. Would be much easier to shut a spammer down and much easier to get off the blacklist if you accidentally got there.