RE: ANNOUNCE: New whitelist source: public companies' domains [SC ANNED]

[Chris Santerre <cs...@MerchantsOverseas.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Barnes [mailto:chris-barnes@tamu.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 2:26 PM
>To: spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org
>Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: New whitelist source: public companies' domains
>[SCANNED]
>
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>Jeff Chan <je...@surbl.org> wrote:
>> Seriously, yes.  The more public a company is, the more they have
>> to lose by breaking the law.  Therefore public companies will
>> tend not to be spammers.  It's no guarantee of course, but
>> perhaps an increased probability.
>
>This will do nothing to stop the "legal spam".
>

What Jeff means by whitelist here is that they won't be added to any SURBL
list. They get no negative score what so ever. A spammer could include
everyone listed in NASDAQ. It wouldn't do them an ounce of good. :-)

--Chris