[100317] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Sun Oct 21 18:41:11 2007
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:40:05 -0400
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: Dave Pooser <dave.nanog@alfordmedia.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <C340CE72.101023%dave.nanog@alfordmedia.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:37:54 -0500
Dave Pooser <dave.nanog@alfordmedia.com> wrote:
> > If something comes that is not whitelisted then email is sent
> > back asking you to confirm that it is not spam. I received one of these
> > confirmation requests for a piece of spam that I did not send out.
>
> Whenever I get one of those, I go ahead and confirm the message so the spam
> gets through to the end user. I figure if they think I'm gonna filter their
> mail for free, well, they get what they pay for. :^)
Heh. Never eve thought of that. That sounds like enough fun that I
may even turn off the blocker. :-)
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