You haven't answered my question, Lues. If the list of e-mail addresses of people who DON'T want junk e-mail is made available for _free for FTP, together with a tool for spammers to scrub their mailing lists of these addresses, and an easy way for anyone to add his or her address to this list for _free, then how would Slaton _sell this list to anyone?
Easily. What percentage of, er, mass internet advertisers would know that this site exists? I assume it would become a very large list, and would make a very atractive target for someone who wanted to provide email addresses to others for a fee. btw - my girlfriend just wandered by, and read this over my shoulder. She's the network operations center mgr. for a large ISP. She just got a complaint last night from a, er, Internet Direct Mail Marketer, who claimed that his outbound mail queue was filling up, and this was somehow the ISP's fault that he couldn't reach certain addresses on a list he had recently purchased. Sorta like calling the phone company and complaining that some numbers on a telemarketing list were disconnected, or that nobody answered :) I'd say it's a safe bet that the unscrupulous could easily sell a large, up-to-date list of email addresses of people who DON'T want junk email to people who want to send such mail. - r.w.