Re:Here it is: the first of many (Score 1)

Hi Dirk, Since XS4ALL has no legal obligation, you can see it as a service to their clients. These clients are paying for their bandwidth (and other services, like email servers) every month. Now somebody is going to use this bandwidth and servers for not asked for email. Therefore they are abusing the services the clients are paying the ISP for. When you are receiving spam at your house, it doesn't cost you a thing. The spammer pays to get their message accross. Obviously, if you are requesting email from AbFab (a very unlikely event indeed) AbFab is not abusing your or the ISP's facilities, so they won't have to pay a penny. Maarten ps. xs4all has had / is having a problem with unsolicited email putting a very high load on their email servers.