Re: [gnu@gnu.org: [Fwd - Frm: sergei@servermail.cepro.cefetpr.br, Subj: failure notice!]]

[kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)]

    A good ISP will _never_ be on any of the antispam lists. You just
    didn't research your ISP selection well enough before signing.  I'd
    recommend a new ISP.

Incorrect.

I know of one ISP in the northest (mostly in MA) which had requests by its
customers to block "security scans" of their machines, which were causing
problems with their mailers.  As any good ISP should do on receiving such a
request (the owner of a machine has an absolute right to say how the machine
should be used), they installed such blocks.  However that action got them
added to one of the "spammers" lists, despite the fact that the ISP in
question had never contributed to spam in any way and was very diligent in
cancelling the accounts of spammers that used their service.

It would be nic if being on these lists actually meant that somebody was
contributing to spam, but in fact all it means is that the site in question
is not taking specific actions that the "control freaks" want to see done.