On 17 August 2017 at 19:30, David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

Spamcop.net should not be compared to the extortionist sites, nor the email vendors. It's honest, and living on a shoestring.

On a shoestring? They're part of Cisco. They run an RBL, so they can still block shared servers. I still put them on the evil side.

And note that it's the _corporate email providers_ who charge money to anyone who gets reported for spamming: that's why I used that particular example.

The RBL that blocked my former employer asked for money to get a faster resolution. That's extortion. And there's a precedent for considering RBLs tortous interference: Spamhaus vs E360, which from reading Wikipedia and Spamhaus's own coverage, you'd think Spamhaus won. They lost: the $3 symbolic damages remained.

Stewart