Re:Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
by inopinatus on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:33AM
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I think you have numerous misconceptions here. You can't pay directly for status. Longevity without change doesn't entitle you to anything. Ten years is not great longevity; try doubling that. Microsoft doesn't not believe you are a "massive spammer"; they are just playing the percentages based on your choice of associations and your choice to abuse their service. Finally, you seem to think you have a contractual relationship with Microsoft that obliges them to accept your email on the basis of "Terms and Conditions" which, if I'm not much mistaken from what you've described, don't apply to your relationship with them.
Your expectations don't match reality and you seem to prefer complaining to change.
I have basically no sympathy at all, I'm afraid. It is your fault, not for "replying to emails" but by failure to update infrastructure as the context changes. This is your problem to fix, and it appears you've made poor choices in that direction based on a misattributed sense of entitlement.
They could just obey their own customers white-listing, or over-ride blacklisting for domains that act appropriately.
So you really think that having a domain of 10+ years standing that doesn't send unsolicited emails at all is "not behaving like a first class citizen"?
If someone in your ISPs /26 sends spam from a different IP and using a different domain, that totally means you're a massive spammer who's ruining the internet??
I could of course change ISP but which of the 15+ yo ISPs will have a spammer somewhere in their IP block, no way to tell.
So the only option left is pay to be able to send email to MS addresses. And you're fine with that? It's all our fault for replying to emails?