[TheForge] MORE OT - spamming, and such troubles (was Re: OT Al McClure)

[terry l. ridder]

hello;

comments below:

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Gabriel Cain wrote:

gabriel> Comments inline...
gabriel> 
<quote who="terry l. ridder">
terrylr> > hello;
terrylr> >
terrylr> > http://www.spews.org.
terrylr> >

gabriel> 
gabriel> I must disagree with regards to spews:
gabriel>    1.  Spews does not account for the source of their complaints
gabriel>    2.  Many valid providers are listed in spews.
gabriel>    3.  Spews doesn't remove people.  Once you've been listed in spews, it's
gabriel>        nearly impossible to get out.
gabriel> 

i do not use spews.org nor am i in any way associated with spews.org.

given the history of other realtime-blackhole services being sued,
spews.org has elected to remain anonymous. i have no idea who is behind
spews.org. 

gabriel, i am open minded, would you be able to provide an example of a
valid provider that is listed in spews.org? it is my experience that
spews.org targets the ips that is harbouring the spammers. if there is
collateral damage that is the isp's problem and not spews.org problem.

spews.org does remove listings, once those listed have removed the
spammers from their networks.

<snip>

i personally like our approach, deny everyone, whitelist those that
e-mail will be received from.

gabriel> HTH,
gabriel> Gabriel (sysadmin for ~120k email accounts)
gabriel> 
gabriel> 

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Terry L. Ridder ><>