Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> > [ On Thursday, July 19, 2001 at 07:07:18 (+0530), Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: ]
> > > Subject: [Exim] Re: RBL Domains
> > >
> > > 2. The MAPS lists (RBL, RSS and DUL) have become non-free with effect from
> > > July 31.
> >
> > not "have" -- "may"
> >
> > There's still no official notice of this on their web page, and no
> > official press release from them yet..... I'm not really fully up to
> > speed on all these things, but if I didn't know better I'd almost guess
> > that the announcement posted to Usenet was a forgery.....
>
> This appeared yesterday:
> http://www.mail-abuse.org/feestructure.html
>
> Given those prices and the 11 page contract, I will have to ask my
> users how much they will pay to avoid spam.
This isn't good news, we already operate at a margin ;-(
and these costs are non-trivial.
Looks like the spammers are going to win this one then.
hopefully the other free spam db's will stay on line.
Mark Guz
