For those of us that feel strongly that email should be a reliable transport medium.

[Mark Warpool]

> From: James Sizemore [mailto:james at DENY.ORG] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 2:33 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: For those of us that feel strongly that email should be a

> reliable transport medium.
>
>
> I also appreciate your point of view,  but  I'm not worried about
> bouncing the spam
> I'm worried about bouncing that one message in a thousand that is a
> false positive.
> The one that winds me up on the phone with an irate customer because
> his  stock
> quote did not get acknowledged, and a $5000 dollar a month  customer
is
> threating
> to find another ISP over a few emails!  I would love to hear of these
> "superior
> solutions" but from what I can tell the only real solution is to
bounce,
> every other
> solution has serious down sides. Or causes  thousands of users to jump
> through
> hoops deleting mail they never wanted to begin with!

No offense, but this sounds rather self-serving.  "I don't care who I
damage, as long as my bottom line is safe."  I'm not a MailScanner
expert here, but I'd be willing to bet that someone could come up with
an alternate solution that would be a decent compromise.  But
'reverse-spamming' everyone else so that you have no chance of upsetting
your customers seems a little selfish.