🚀 go-pugleaf

    If the post office kept delivering bombs to me despite the ability to
detect them and prevent their delivery, I would blame them for delivering
them if they did.

>Now you are a fool, along with all ISPs who allow themselves to be blamed
>for the mail they are delivering. Blaming the messenger is one of the
>oldest errors of logic known to mankind. Do you blame the mailman for junk
>mail that comes to your home?

    I don't blame him only because I know he is prohibited by law from
filtering out my junk mail. If he weren't, I well might pay him a few bucks
to throw the garbage out so I don't have to.

>Do you blame the phone company for
>telemarketers?

    Yes, and it worked. They responded with caller ID, which I'm willing to
pay for. Now I don't have to answer calls unless they're from people I know.
Cool, huh?

>Evidently, many ISPs are poor business people and poor
>marketers with limited ability to deflect or sell around this type of
>misinformed customer complaint.

    You live in your own little world, Bob.

>They feel compelled to take action and take
>responsibility for something they clearly are not responsible for and have
>no control over.

    If ISPs had no control over spam, what would you be complaining about?
What's bothering you is that they _do_ have control over spam and _choose_
to exercise it.

>It is an issue they cannot possibly win. As you know, it
>is impossible to block all unsolicited email.

    Ah, yes, the old, "if something can't be done perfectly, you shouldn't
even try to do it at all." Hey, Bob, no car alarm stops all car theives, so
I bet you don't own a car alarm.

>Thus, any claims that an ISP
>makes along the lines that it is the ISP who blocks spam is likely to
>create more customer problems that it solves. A smart ISP would not allow
>themselves to get caught holding the bag on bulk email.


    We don't. We say, "we do everything we can to stop spam and wish we
could do more. Your beef is really with the spammers and their allies."
Looked in the mirror lately, Bob?

    DS