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Pierre Uszynski  <pierre@rahul.net> wrote:

>Rahul Dhesi writes:

>>It's very hard these days to guarantee that email will never be
>>deliberately blocked.  It's unfortunate that things have come to this.

Only because a cult of email-blocking has emerged, replacing
the previous culture wherein delivering conforming email 
(conforming in the sense that it satisfies the RFC's) was
given the absolute highest priority.

The problem is 90% political and only at most 10% technical.  

>Yes, but 'deliberately' is the key word here. Email doesn't just "get
>blocked". People block email. Rahul blocks email.

Exactly.

I am disappointed with the mass-blocking of email conducted by
Rahul and others, but it's not enough to make me switch
providers.

I have accounts at the University of California.  I include a
berkeley.edu address in all of my Usenet posts, including when
posting from a2i as I am at the moment.  My berkeley.edu address is
harvested by all spammers and presumably receives as much spam as
anybody does, since I post alot.

The Berkeley admins do not do RSS blocking or anything similar.
Nor do they do reverse DNS blocking.  Thus all the spam goes to
my mailbox at Berkeley.  But it does not clog up their systems;
it is not a whole lot of spam to begin with.  Around 10 message
per day I would say.

This proves it is possible to run a system, reliably, without
using RSS.  Granted the Berkeley people have different parameters
(higher ratio of total users to usenet posters, perhaps), and
more resources.  But isn't it a2i's goal to run
a system that has the same functionality and level of service
that one would find in a well-run coporate or academic site?
Thus setting a2i apart from and above nearly all the other
ISP's out there?

Something to ponder, anyway.

Steve