[SURBL-Discuss] not spam URL - http://www.templatezone.com/

[Russ Ringer]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:55:32 -0500, you wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jeff Chan [mailto:jeffc at surbl.org]
>>Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:10 PM
>>To: Russ Ringer
>>Cc: discuss at lists.surbl.org
>>Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] not spam URL - 
>>http://www.templatezone.com/
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>>On Thursday, December 16, 2004, 3:41:33 PM, Russ Ringer wrote:
>>> http://www.templatezone.com/ is just a place to get templates
>>> It should not be in SURBL
>>
>>They look like a legitimate business, but also sell some kind of
>>mailing software:
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>>  http://www.templatezone.com/html-email-software/high-impact-email.asp
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>>"Affordable email marketing for business professionals
>>
>>Energize your email marketing messages with High Impact eMail
>>3.0. Get your recipient's attention. Get noticed. Stand out. Get
>>the results you want."
>>
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>>I lean towards whitelisting, but might like to hear why the WS
>>guys originally added them (long ago):
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>>/home/wstearns/black-wstearns-sa-blacklist.200406281446.domains
>>:templatezone.com
>>
>>Any comments WS folks?
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>While I think any company that sells mass email software that is used to
>send spam should be blacklisted, this case isn't straight black. Their
>software isn't one of the larger ratware packages, and it is more legit. 
>
>Yes it has been used to send spam. No doubt about that. But those seem to
>have other, more evil, URLs in them. So we could hit off of those. 
>
>Against my draconian seasond crank beliefs ,I would vote to Whitelist them. 
>
>--Chris 

While it's against my draconian seasoned crank beliefs, too, we're
getting legitimate mail from one of our suppliers that uses one of
their templates, which has the URL embedded.

-->Russ