MAPS and Experian Settle Lawsuit

dbrower writes: "Experian is trumpeting a settlement with MAPS here, where MAPS agreed not to blackhole them without a court order, and agreed that Experian didn't need to do opt-in. Looks like a loss to me."

Comments

Re:Double opt-in? What the hell?

[Reality Master 101]

Do you really want to enable people to kill your e-mail easily by just signing you up for a few dozen multi-megabyte-per-day single-opt-in mailing lists?

Fine, if these theoretical multi-megabyte-per-day mailing lists are being abused in that way, then they can choose to be a double opt-in. But insisting that every mailing list in the world be a double opt-in or they get blacklisted is radical and absurd. That's when I start yelling "Whoa!!!!" and saying the "freedom fighters" have started looking like the "oppressors".

Re:MAPS settled

[JatTDB]

Oh, you vigilantes are so cute when you're mad.

At any point that I am walking down a public street, a salesman could approach me and launch right into a sales pitch. I can dodge around him, turn, say no, something like that...but it's still going to change my initial plan of walking uninhibited down the street.

Yes, spam sucks...but look at the examples you gave of how to ensure a spam-filled mailbox...all of those are like walking down the biggest public street in the world.

But more important than a reason people shouldn't get so incredibly pissed off over spam...the whole concept of black hole lists is just wrong. It's a "kill em all and let god sort em out!" solution. Why should the other users of an ISP with a handful (or even just one) bad user all be punished? They did nothing wrong. In most cases, there's no way they would know such a situation was possible. Use methods that don't punish the innocent, and you'll get a lot more support with stuff like this.