Osirusoft Blacklists The World

ariehk writes "As of today, Osirusoft, distributer of the SPEWS and open relay blocklists, among others, is no longer operational. Servers using these lists (including the FTC) are currently rejecting ALL email. This shutdown seems to be in response to a several-week-long DDoS attack on Osirusoft, SPEWS and others, resulting in both sites being down. This has caused much discussion on n.a.n-a.e, including the suggestion that the attack is somehow related to the SoBig worm. The spammers must be hurting if they can devote these kinds of resources to attacking blocklists." Read on below a related submission.

NSXDavid writes "Earlier today our site mysteriously ended up on Joe Jared's Osirusoft SPAM blacklist which is used by lots of antispam software (like SpamAssassin and sendmail). Since he is currently under a serious DDoS attack, there was no way to appeal this decision. We contacted Mr. Jared by phone who informed us that 'everyone needs to stop using Osirusoft and that he's going to be shutting the service down.' Then he says he's going to blacklist 'the world' (aka, ban *.*.*.*) to get his point across. Later on this evening, he apparently went ahead and did just that. Succumbing to lawsuits and DDoS, a once great blacklist is dead. SpamAssassin is removing it from their config in the next release (rc3) and email admins around the globe are reconfiguring their mail servers."

Comments

Re:perhaps this is a lesson that needed learned

[leviramsey]

Jesus Christ, you're a psychopath.

I suppose you're okay with flying planes into buildings until the US pulls out of Saudi Arabia.

I suppose you're in favor of burning shit until the WTO withers and dies?

I suppose you're in favor of lynching every black man you see until all the niggers leave?

Re:Pro Spam?

[RipCurl808]

Since when has SPAM become a problem. I thought it was spam. Learn the correct terms if you want to even remotely sound like you know what you are talking about.
And if you dont understand the difference between SPAM and spam, then you're like every clueless dweeb who has no idea what sys admins and mail server administrators have to go through.

Re:Sweet, Sweet Justice.

[WNight]

Their "demand" if you can call it such, is that they demand you take off your shoes before entering their house, or the houses of their friends. If you do not, they will tell their friends you are uncouth and their friends will likely not admit you either.

They don't want spam. If you send spam, or are hard to distinguish from a spammer because you use a company that hosts spammers, they simply tell their friends that you are a spammer, or are indirectly involved in spam, and to not accept email from you.

You have no right to force them to accept your email, which means that they may freely block your email. This causes MUCH less harm to you than the spam does to them. You get a nice bounce letter explaining that your email won't go through, whereas they, if they accept email from these spammers will get gigabytes of penile enlargement spam flooding their mailboxes and the mailboxes of their customers.

How does this cause you so much harm?