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Date:      Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:18:47 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Rejecting spam, accepting valid mail (was: Mail blocked)
Message-ID:  <3C8C05F7.E400CB3E@mindspring.com>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020307094130.01f59240@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020306234510.01ee0180@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020306234510.01ee0180@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020307094130.01f59240@nospam.lariat.org> <3cg03ccef4.03c@localhost.localdomain> <4.3.2.7.2.20020307221616.00cb9980@nospam.lariat.org> <20020308190102.B679@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <d1lmd1dwzm.md1@localhost.localdomain> <3C8B01B9.D7BE84DC@mindspring.com> <iselisd9zk.lis@localhost.localdomain> <3C8BA2EF.C9C533A8@mindspring.com> <78sn78axwf.n78@localhost.localdomain>

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"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote:
> Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:
> > is certainly theft of services.  As a mail server operator, and
> > being located in the state of California, it's actually possible
> > to collect $50 per message that transit the server (that'd be
> > one per target, in the case of a fan-out, so it would be the list
> > membership), up to a total of $25,000, per incident.
> 
> That sounds like an argument for a highly porous filter.
> 
> Why do you suppose the ambulance chasers haven't gotten involved?
> 40% of $25,000 isn't enough to see these kinds of cases through?

It's even sweeter.  The implication of the wording of the
law is that putting your notice in the SMTP greeting message
you get when connecting to the mail server constitutes
"sufficient notification" under the law.

-- Terry

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