... And good riddance too.
ORDB and various blackhole databases have been the bane of my email existence since they were invented. Much as I hate spam (and I do) I hate having strangers filter my email even more.
Many times I have had emails I sent bounced, just because someone else at my ISP had an open relay or was infected with something, or perhaps was actually evil. But why is that _my_ problem? Yet these lists make it my problem; I get my emails bounced back, through no fault of my own. I don't choose my IP address, nor do I choose my IP neighbors.
And it breaks in the other direction, too -- emails sent to me may simply never arrive, just because some sanctimonious so-and-so decided to "fix" spam. Bleah. A pox on them all.
Before various ISPs decided to help me with my spam problem, I used to get around 300 to 400 emails daily, about 50 of them legit. Today, thanks to the efforts of misguided do-gooders worldwide I get about 50 emails daily, with maybe 6 or 10 of them spam. At first blush this seems to be an improvement, but in fact I'm losing a handful of emails _every_ _day_ which did not happen when I was getting all the spam.
Spam? Sucks, no question about it. But let ME decide what is spam for myself; the rest of you keep your paws out of my mailbox.
Gordon S. Hlavenka