Why can I use my ISPs mail account, or ArtHost.biz mail server, to do mass emailings advertising my website?
Unsolicited commercial email is “SPAM”. The position of the MAPS Realtime Blackhole List is that the hosts of websites advertised in spam are guilty of being a “spam support service” and therefore qualify for blacklisting. Because millions of networks use the MAPS Realtime Blackhole List to block all email from blacklisted networks, and ArtHost.biz doesn’t want to be on that list, our Terms of Service prohibit sending any unsolicited commercial email that advertises websites or mailboxes hosted by us. This means our clients cannot use email or web addresses on our network as contact points in a spam, regardless of whether our network is used to actually relay the spam. (Our policy prohibits sending any spam from our network too). So, if you send mass emailings, please make sure that everyone receiving your message has “opted in” to receive it. As the MAPS FAQ says, the opportunity to “opt out” does not uncharacterize it as spam the recipient must have consented in advance to receiving
