North American Network Operators Group
Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical

Re: Postmaster Operator List?

  • From: Jim Popovitch
  • Date: Fri Nov 16 13:56:00 2007 
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 22:13 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2007 10:04 PM, Leigh Porter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > If there was, I sure would not join it. It'd be full of "I cannot send
> > mail to your domain blah blah"
> >
> 
> Been to a MAAWG meeting yet?  Or been on one such list?
> 
> There's a lot more interesting and useful / operationally relevant
> stuff that goes on.

<rant>
>From www.maawg.org:  "Your company must be a member of this organization
for you to gain access to the members area of this site"

Ok, so it's still a good-ole-boys club.  Interestingly enough, a lot of
the names on the "approved" companies are some of the ones that can't
very effectively control inbound/outbound spam from their net blocks.
How long has MAAWG been in existence?  Has email Abuse gotten better or
worse?  Perhaps if they weren't so exclusive....
</rant>