On Jul 9, 6:22 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 18:06:30 -0400, "JimH" ask wrote:
Bring this case in and he/she will

That's what I like about you.

You are so sure of other people's motivations.

The "Black Hole List" works sort of the same way. Our customers,
specially AOL users who insist on using uncontrolled auto-responders
get listed quite often. They of course blame us as the provider so we
do get involved. I think you will find that these lists protect
themselves pretty well with the services contract they give the users.
The users agree to allow e-mail, tagged by BHL to be blocked from
their service. BHL has a list of criteria that can lead to you being
blocked, the generic answer is that you have been tagged as a spammer,
but if you look at the TOS you will find that they can use a lot of
other things too. As a customer, a hosting or POP mail provider can
subscribe, subjecting their down stream users to the "service". As it
is wide open that they can put you on the list on a whim, and a
customer/provider can use the list to block IP's, and it is all by
contract and paid for by the subscribers, I don't think you can do
anything about it. If so, let me know, I would love to provide info
for your suit. We have a group of peers that have been looking at this
for almost a decade and found no way to stop them so far.