[SOC] Fwd: [QSL-Net] Why was ARRL blacklisted?

[SOC HQ]

FYI

Well, I guess it is not really needed to forward all mesgs related to
the ARRL problem. It seems that in the meantime ARRL.NET is now OK
once agn with Hotmail and still working on the subject with Juno.
(source : ARRL Web site).
GL 2 U !

72!
Claude

This is a forwarded message
From: Alan L. Waller <k3tkj@qsl.net>
To: qsl-net@mailman.qth.net
Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 12:56:36 AM
Subject: [QSL-Net] Why was ARRL blacklisted?

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To answer the many inquiries as to what is going on...here is my opinion 
for what it's worth.

We have 45,000 or so active mail users on QSL.NET, I deny about 300,000 
e-mails daily that are known spammers.

ARRL.NET has reported they have 170,000 subscribers....lets assume they get 
the same spam as we do, and scale it up....this means they get 1,200,000 
spam messages a day. They do no filtering so all of it is delivered. They 
reported 6000 users, or about 3% of their users are involved....3% of the 
spam would be over 36,000 delivered and stored for retrieval at Juno and 
Hotmail.

Think of spam as junk-mail in your snail-mail box but all of it coming 
"Postage Due"....it costs an incredible amount of money to support the 
bandwidth it takes to process spam. We are a tiny operation compared to 
Juno or Hotmail but we have $60K work of  hardware and a $1600 a month 
access charge for what we do. These companies have many times that.

This is why they got booted and I agree they needed to. Now maybe they will 
fix their problem that have been ignoring for the last 4 years.

73, Al





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