Peter Duniho wrote:

You have no clue about what you're talking about. The reason that I had my
ISP disable the black-hole list was that domains such as aol.com,
comcast.com, and cox.net were being blocked. These are all "respectable"
ISPs who take a no-tolerance stance toward their users sending spam.

All three of those ARE spammers and are all very unresponsive in getting
their customers to clean up... Comcast is the worst of the bunch,
followed by Cox, and AOL is much better than it used to be... Every spam
or virus received from them, if forwarded back with a complaint and
the reason for it...

Baloney. I receive practically no email from anyone using an ISP that
supports spam. I doubt I know ANYONE who uses an ISP that supports spam.
And yet email sent to me was getting blocked on a regular basis, because
those spam-intolerant ISPs that my friends and family do use were still
getting blocked.

I guess you don't get any of those "419" money scams then...

Do you really believe that Ben or his ISP at rrcnet.org have blocked the
optonline.net domain as a spamming network legitimately?

I kneaux I have...