Re: OT - Blue Frog

Blue Frog doesn't use the headers to determine where to send opt out
requests. Any yutz knows that reply to's are always forged and that
the track back data in the header is almost always corrupt or pointing
to innocent servers.

Blue frog utilizes the advertised site or service to register the
complaint with a plain text message saying in basic terms: Leave us
alone please.

I've said this in other posts but I think it's an important idea that
isn't getting any lip: SPAM IS A LEGAL SOLICITATION FOR BUSINESS. It
is an INVITATION for you to visit them and hopefully give them your
money or personal data. Is answering any advertisement illegal? Of
course not. Let's not be stupid. To answer advertisements is called
doing business.

If these opt-out requests crash their servers it's because of one of
two things.
A: They must scale their servers and ISP connections UP to be able to
handle the number of responses generated by the solicitations they send
out. (They may also need to hire more staff to process the traffic
they generate.)
-or-
B: They must scale their solicitations (spam) down to be commensurate
with their ability to handle the traffic they generate.

What's all the argument about? Let's go back to our day jobs now and
get on with life. Let us froggers do what we do.

Thanks all for the lively debate,
B

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