Jephree is right in his assessment and I agree with his philosophy concerning mass mailings. However, there are times when a legitimate "non-commercial" need arises to get the word out to many people - wedding plan changes, class re-union announcements, family reunions, etc.
I myself run into these ceiling limits frequently in my volunteer work dealing with spam. I report spam to
SpamCop in an effort to get the spammers blocked at their ISPs. First thing in the morning, my spamblocker may show several dozen spam messages waiting. The reporting process allows me to select all at once, and send them all at once to SpamCop for analysis. Unfortunately (but understandably) my provider often sees this mass mailing of suspicious emails as suspicious, and will block my reporting - forcing me to select a few a time to send. While I understand and appreciate the desire to block spam from being sent, it is irritating when I know my email is legitimate. That said, I blame the badguys for ruining it for all, and not the ISPs.
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Not to mention the article was posted by a commercial e-mail software provider.
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Jephree is right again that the link I provided is from a commercial site, but I note they are not an email provider, but a provider of email software "add-ons" - usually for MS Outlook. In other words, the company does not compete
in any way with the companies listed in the link - this is not a competitive or conflict of interest thing and I took that into consideration when posting the link to the article. Additionally, the article did not simply state ISP's policies, but provided links to the actual policy pages of the providers mentioned. However, I should have added a "disclaimer notice" so I thank jephree for pointing that out.
