[pmmail-list] Spam -- your definition

[PMMail OS/2 Support]

On Fri, 31 May 2002 11:21:29 +1200, Richard Grevers wrote:

>The big risk of these is 
>that some trigger-happy ISP won't check things properly and will kill the account of an innocent
>victim.

Indeed, this is a major problem and one that started me thinking
about "what is spam?"

I have been told by ISPs and hosting companies that they would -- and
even SEEN hosting companies -- shut down people's accounts if they
got reports of spam. No chance for explanation, no questions asked,
just boom, you're cut off.

In one case, I know for a fact that the person didn't send out spam.
What happened was site XYZ hired a 3rd party (SpamCo Software) to
work on his site. SpamCo later sent out commercial solicitations and
listed site XYZ as a site they had worked on. Someone complained to
XYZ's hosting company and the morons shut down his site -- without
contacting him -- as if he had done something wrong. Shrug.

Then it hit me: we have some trigger happy lynch mobs out there (and
some more reasonable people too).


--
Trevor Smith
PMMail/2 Technical Support
pmmailos2@blueprintsoftwareworks.com

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