Re: [exim] Protesting AOL pay to send email plan

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 02:34:17PM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
>> As many of you know AOL is contemplating a pay to send email plan. So
>> I'm protesting it by doing a DEFER on my lowest MX record server. The
>> other server will accept AOL email, but the DEFER puts a line in AOL
>> log files every time AOL tries to send email to one of my users. Of
>> course
>
> [snip drivel]
>
> I never saw the day that the EFF ever had a clue on spam. And plenty of
> times when they've simply misrepresented a whole lot of facts to produce
> quite laughable opinions on the subject of spam.
>
>

I'm not going to argue the merits of the protest in this forum. I just
provided the code for those who are interested in participating. I also
contend that the charging of money for email is an inefective way to
control spam. Especially when spammers who are making money would tend
to be more able to pay fees.