Spamhaus Responds To Spammers' Lawsuit

ShaiHulud-23 writes "A suit was recently filed by EMarketersAmerica.org, a fledgling secret organization of spammers, against the Spamhaus Project, (and other anti-spam sites) seeking to prevent the publication of the anonymous plaintiffs' IP addresses in the Spamhaus Block List (SBL). The suit requested a response from the named defendants, and Spamhaus director Steve Linford has provided one, dismantling the spammers' case point by point."

Comments

Answer to spam?

[Futurepower(R)]

Maybe the answer to spam is for the president of the U.S. (a real one, not George Bush) to make a speech to the nation and ask everyone never to respond to unsolicited email. If no one ever responded, spam would not pay.

Groups interested in public welfare need to get the message out.

Spam vs. Commercial Email

[dirk]

I'm not up on exactly what type of "spam" the emailers are sending, but I think everyone needs to realize there are legitimate emailers and spammers.

I hate spammers. They send out mass emailings to huge lists they buy (or they make up), usually through open relays and they refuse to take you off their lists. On the other hand there are some (I'm not usre how many) legitimate emailers who actually get their lists from things people sign up for. They send legitimate email through legitimate email servers and have legitimate ways to get yourself removed from their lists.

The crusanders need to realize that mass emailing is like hacking, there are white, black, and grey hats. If I sign up for Yahoo and check the boxes saying I want to receive email about something, it is not spam, no matter how much I whine about it. If I can respond to the email and request to be taken off a list and actually be taken off of it, then it isn't spam. Not all commercial email is spam.

As easy as it is to rail against spammers and paint all commercial email with the same brush, shouldn't we see if the people listed are following the appropriate rules, or if they are breaking them before we try and bury them?