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[Dima Volodin]

On Fri, 2 Jun 00 09:03:19 EDT, you wrote:

>    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.

That's exactly the situation with RoadRunner (I'm a RoadRunner customer
here in VA) and ORBS.


Dima