Here's Another Clue For you all

The Walrus was Paul

Actually I thought this might be of interest to RP people. If it is off topic I'll delete it but its on going right now.

A general problem for ISP's and all of us has been spam. Its all over. A great way to handle it is to block domains that send spam, and look for certain phrases that tip off the mail server it is spam.

A mail server that is not spamming but is sending valid email should be left alone. Many valid customers have opt-in lists, donor lists (like politicians), customer lists etc. These are to known parties and thats what has made the internet great! We can send a message to many people at once.

But, the amount of SPAM has become overwhelming it appears. To solve that the big guys (ATT, ComCast, alltell, Barracuda, Yahoo) have begun to say that ANYONE sending out a number of emails is spamming. The content does not matter. This means if you try to send out 500 emails to Ron Paul people it will be blocked.

Further the mail server the email came from will be blocked which means ALL the other customers using that mail server will be blocked too!

Then you come along and try and send one email - you will get it bounced back saying 421 or 554 "Blocked for SPAM". You get things like Comcast blocking Yahoo etc.

The ISP has no choice then but to enforce limits on the number of emails you send.

Now you might say this is just part of business but this is not needed - there are ways to block spam without blocking valid emails. So why did they choose a method which restricts everyone from sending out lots of emails?

My theory is that the big guys have been following rules from Homeland Security. The government wants to block the ability of Americans to email lots of other Americans. Sinister? maybe just accurate.

Go ahead read the terms of service of the big guys - even gmail. They limit you to 100 per day.

America where did you go to?