== Some words of wisdom on email certification programs Vernon Schyrver in news.admin.net-abuse.email: > The trouble with all "Good Guys" lists is in who pays. Maintaining a > comprehensive list that can be widely used is expensive. [...] > > Sooner instead of later, those who have financial reasons for seeing > themselves certified as good assume the financial burdens and so > are given control. Organizations whose mail is never blocked can't > find a reason to pay third parties for testamonials. They tell their > correspodents "If you want my mail, orders or whatever, whitelist me > or otherwise arrange to hear from me, but if not, that's ok too." That > leaves organizations that for various reasons don't inspire enough > trust on their own to pay for and so run the "Good Guys" list. (From Message-ID [[ http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.email/msg/eede1c86d807a95]].)