North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: RBL quandry - opinions hereby solicited
Dean stop beeing a boob - it's spam - it's not hey glad your a customer hope all is well it's hey use us to register new domains - it's being generated to compete against other avenues of registration - lets call it what it is - if you like it great - give it a hug and kiss and give it a rest - the majority I would assume aren't real thrilled about it - and the whole speil about fake email addresses cuz folk don't want to give out theirs - is bullshit - the correct answer is "then you don't get a domain" drive through please. On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Dean Anderson wrote: > Not so. You can use another registry. .COM, .NET, and .ORG may be the most > popular, but they are not the only ones. When you refuse to do business > with NSI, they don't send you email. They don't get lists and send email > to random people. If you don't agree to let NSI send you email, they won't > do business with you. Everyone agreed to those terms. Can't come back and > change them later, because you don't like it. > > Personally, I don't see anything wrong with most of the mail I've gotten > from them. Some of it a bit technically insulting, but that doesn't make > it totally unreasonable from an email ethics point of view. It certainly > doesn't qualify as spam, since it is in fact solicited. You paid $100+ for > the privilege. > > Technically, they aren't broadcasting either. They are sending email to > their customers. Not potential future customers. Existing customers. They > didn't buy this list from somewhere. They asked for, and required customers > to give this information, and to give them permission to send email. > > You seem to be in a conflict with your own rules, since you have said that > you don't RBL companies that are using their own internal lists. As I > thought, you aren't operating from some kind of moral or ethical principal, > you are just bullying others. I just don't like that, whether you happen > to be right or not. > > >> 2] They are sending to folks that use the service. > > > >yes. which is: everybody who has a domain in COM, NET, or ORG. > > Ahh, it has finally come to a confrontation with someone who quite possibly > speaks more authoritatively for everyone in those domains than you do. > This will be interesting, to say the least. > > I wonder if RBLing NetSol is cause for them to put vix.com on hold. That > would be a hoot. I suppose they actually could call you in breach of > contract for refusing to receive email, refund your money, and cancel your > domains. > > --Dean > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Plain Aviation, Inc [email protected] > LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > -- I am nothing if not net-Q! - [email protected]
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