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Originally posted by Tipsy
The problem stems from the fact that they are happy to ban BIG blocks of IP's because one of two spammers pop up in the middle of it.
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Yes, that can be a problem. But as far as I know they usually do this if an owner of IP block is a known host for spammers of spamware distributors. I.e. when not only couple of spammers pop up just for a moment, but plenty of them spamming away over and over from the same IP block. I believe there can be mistakes when they block entire IP block for nothing, but in most cases there are more essential reasons for ban. Indeed I'm sorry for the honest people who happen to be in the same IP space, especially when they even do not understand what's really happening.
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Originally posted by Tipsy
For what it's worth I don't consider mass e-mailing per se spam. There are quite legitimate and very big mail lists people use. It's just a shame it's such a very, very small minority.
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Well, same with me. There are usefull mailers that people are willing to receive. But most of spam I'm getting into my e-mail boxes, and this is, by the way, 80% of my mail now
origins from forged addresses, Cina or some other third countries servers and/or use proxies/open relays. Many of them use my addresses I have not ever used at all (public contact e-mails I don't use for any subscribtions). No wonder I don't even try to use their removal link, because it probably exists only to confirm my address so they will be spamming more. I just report all them via SpamCop and to FTC, when I have time.