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Merrioc: your numbers are so far off as to be laughable.
First off, if you ran a true double opt in (opt and confirm) list, and then mailed under EXACTLY the same name with a newsletter, and mailed consistantly with that newsletter, and didn't sell your lists, didn't share the names, didn't single opt in, scrape, or add names from other unrelated lists, your spam count would be very very low (I use to mail lists from my 4free style sites, with almost never a complaint).
Second, the actual number of people who will complain TO YOUR HOST about spam is very small indeed as a ratio of mailings. My guess would be a number well under 1/10 of 1%. 350 complaints would suggest way more than 1 million mails out in that same time frame (plus maybe 1 hour for reaction... so perhaps 350k mails per hour outgoing). 75% of people don't complain (most have filters, spam cop, or feel that just hitting delete does the trick - people will only complain about truly annoying spam, and most of them are not able to easily track down the source of spam).
Sadly, some service providers do allow this type of mailing, and some bandwidth providers seem to have no problem allowing their network to be spam spewing sewers. If a couple more of them got a little more on the ball, spam would slow down very quickly indeed.
Alex
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