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Osirusoft Blacklists The World
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."
We all know that SMTP is broken and spam will simply grow exponentially until i6ts unusable ( over 50% of all email is spam/uce and thats right now in less than 5years, imagine 10years time)
but no one wants to step up to the plate and actually implement an alternative
dont complain you are bleeding when banging your head against the wall
Hah! All you plotters in the Open Source conspiracy will never tell your lies to the FTC! SCO is on a divine mission, supported by God and the American Way! No one may get in our path!
-- "Baghdad" McBride
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?
Spews isn't dead idiot.. there's still tens of mirrors out there.
Maybe you need to do more homework before you stick your foot so far into your mouth it's coming out your ass.
People Talking in Movie shows.. people smoking in bed.. people voting republican.. GIVE THEM A BOOT TO THE HEAD!
Because he was put in that situation where he had to take it down by some spammer fuckwit who tried to blast his site off the network.
Also, this is apparently to help him determine the rogue requests from the legit ones. Legit folks will stop using it rather quickly, while the folks DDoS'ing him will come through.
How the fuck was he supposed to tell everyone that uses it that it's down? BECAUSE he's down?
Idiot.
People Talking in Movie shows.. people smoking in bed.. people voting republican.. GIVE THEM A BOOT TO THE HEAD!
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.
You know what mjec@bigpond.com , I agree with you
Bush and Blair ate my sig!
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?