Bush signs new spam law....

Hooper · 12-16-2003

the difference now is that hosts and upstream providers will be more willing to allow you to accept email traffic if you are a sponsor and it will be easier to find facilities from which to send if you are a mailer.

of course this means that the value of each email you send goes down because not only will many corporations and isp's will block at the source all ADV emails...

however i'd be willing to bet that mailers would much prefer a decrease in the value of their emails as opposed to paying 10-20-30-50k a month to greedy providers in order to have 2000 ip's that they hop between while trying to dodge block lists.

i think also that one of the ripple effects is that block lists will either become good guys or bad guys. some will still do silly things like block all of verio because of a few customers who are spamming and breaking the rules... but those blocklists who do that will stop being used by admin's as blocklists that effectively spot block and only block isp's who are allowing mailers to mail who break the rules, run proxy mailres etc..etc..

i'm stoked about the rule, because now basically all the state laws are invalidated/un-prosecutable because states are not allowed to limit interstate commerce from my understanding, and this new law provides a federal and overriding set of laws.

my 2 cents.

12-16-2003	#8
Hooper Members Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1,156	the difference now is that hosts and upstream providers will be more willing to allow you to accept email traffic if you are a sponsor and it will be easier to find facilities from which to send if you are a mailer. of course this means that the value of each email you send goes down because not only will many corporations and isp's will block at the source all ADV emails... however i'd be willing to bet that mailers would much prefer a decrease in the value of their emails as opposed to paying 10-20-30-50k a month to greedy providers in order to have 2000 ip's that they hop between while trying to dodge block lists. i think also that one of the ripple effects is that block lists will either become good guys or bad guys. some will still do silly things like block all of verio because of a few customers who are spamming and breaking the rules... but those blocklists who do that will stop being used by admin's as blocklists that effectively spot block and only block isp's who are allowing mailers to mail who break the rules, run proxy mailres etc..etc.. i'm stoked about the rule, because now basically all the state laws are invalidated/un-prosecutable because states are not allowed to limit interstate commerce from my understanding, and this new law provides a federal and overriding set of laws. my 2 cents. __________________ Quickbuck is paying $100 Per trial join.