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RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail
From: "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:12:48 -0400
Of course they'll make mistakes, so what? AOL makes mistakes with their spam filtering, does that mean they should do spam filtering? It's precisely *because* mistakes with spam filtering are inevitable that accreditation services are useful. An accreditation service lives entirely on their reputation and AOL sinks or swims on that reputation too, because the certified messages clearly have a special status. If they're inappropriate message AOL will be barraged by complaints and that costs them money and customers. The amount of money they get from Goodmail customers will never overcome the support costs if it's implemented badly. I don't know what Choicepoint's validation practices were and perhaps they weren't public. Goodmail's are and you can judge them for yourself: http://www.goodmailsystems.com/senders/qualifications.php What really burns me up about this is that there's no rational reading of the situation in which the amount of spam getting to AOL users increases or decreases (unless Goodmail is wildly incompetent or corrupt, neither of which I'm going to assume). Goodmail is not supposed to decrease spam, it's supposed to decrease false positives. That's all. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larryseltzer () ziffdavis com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Fergie (Apr 13)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Dave Dennis (Apr 13)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 13)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Blanchard_Michael (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Andre Ludwig (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Andre Ludwig (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Andre Ludwig (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Blanchard_Michael (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Matthew Murphy (Apr 14)
- RE: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Larry Seltzer (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail John Levine (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Dude VanWinkle (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail der Mouse (Apr 14)
- Re: AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail John Levine (Apr 14)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- AOL Charged With Blocking Opponents' e-Mail Justin Polazzo (Apr 19)