On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 03:16:04PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: >
> What I was thinking was that if I could notify people that there's a
> server that's been hackd or a virus infected machine then a lot of
> spam could be stopped at the source.
Sorry, but that is an awful idea.
I know that our policies as an ISP would be to blocklist all mail from
your servers if you were to send those kinds of notices to us unsolicited.
It's perfectly reasonable to offer such a service on an opt-in basis
(as AOL does), but if you send unsolicited notices you are no better
than the spammers, your contact information would be sketchy at best,
and ultimately the majority of your notices would be ignored anyway.
