[R-390] QTH.NET and the sorbs conspiracy

[Bill Hawkins]

Welcome to the club!

SORBS is an acronym for something. It is also the name of a group
of highwaymen that have set out on the holy quest to rid the internet
of spam. Highwaymen? You bet! If your ISP lets a spammer slip through
then SORBS blacklists them until they have paid for every bit of spam
that SORBS has received. Never mind that the ISP was not the spammer.
They should have had some software in place that intercepted the spam.

This goes back to the days when some ISPs were open gateways for spam,
like GTE. Now, the only spam that gets through an ISP is from somebody
who signed up with the ISP and agreed not to spam, but didn't mean it.
SORBS thinks that the ISP should have somehow known better.

SORBS distributes its blacklist services for free. They make their money
by holding ISPs hostage until they pay the toll. The only way out of
this is for people who use SORBS' "service" to realize what's going on
and drop SORBS. It is still true that you get what you pay for.

My ISP let a spammer slip through for a day before they shut him down,
back in August. They will not pay SORBS and so they are still on the
block list. Been there, heard both sides, want nothing to do with SORBS.

Ho, ho, ho
Bill Hawkins


-----Original Message-----
From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Tom Norris
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 8:57 PM
To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [R-390] QTH.NET and the sorbs conspiracy


The past week or so about half of what I post to the list gets bounced
back by s.o.r.b.s. as being "spam" or at least it gets bounced back
because someone at bellsouth sent spam somewhere at sometime and one
of the ip addresses in that address pool is marked as evil.

The sorbs website gives users whose mail has bounced a chance to input
their ip address and "clear their name" so to speak. Trouble is, I'm
on dialup and therefore have a dynamic ip.

I call BellSouth and they have no idea what I'm talking about, nor do
they care when I give them the information.

Anyone else getting email on QTH.net lists bounced back by this sorbs
service?????

This is becoming more and more frequent to the point that posting is
nearly impossible on any of the lists I'm subscribed to on qth.net.


Tom
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