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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."
the cost of the certificate would be great for ensureing responsible use. someone's gotta pay for the book keeping. and a cert only costs $150, not $1000. hyperboly is just the sort of thing that got spews so hated.
You are an idiot.
Mail Admins are tired of seeing spammers try million plus dictionary attacks.
1 spam email=little bandwidth.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of spam emails, OVER AND OVEr.. consumes bandwidth, cleanup AND has been known to knock machines off line from the sheer amount of crap.
You try running a mail server, even at a small ISP, and see how much crap you have to deal with.
People Talking in Movie shows.. people smoking in bed.. people voting republican.. GIVE THEM A BOOT TO THE HEAD!
Amen. I was blacklisted by Spamcop once, because of some asshat who signed up for my newsletter, then turned around and reported the next three issues to Spamcop. One person reporting 3 newsletters got my IP blacklisted.
It took 2 days of threatening them with a lawsuit and being flamed by the trolls in their newsgroup before an administrator looked at the spam reports and saw they were bullshit. It was delisted on the spot.
As bad as that was, at least they were willing to remove a bad listing. SPEWS did that shit on purpose. And the attitude was unbelievably stupid.
"If your web host is listed, find another host".
That's complete bullshit. Web hosts and ISPs cost fucking money, and so do contracts, especially when you terminate them early.
If you want to ban a spammer's IP, then do so. Don't block 5,000 legitimate web site owners because of one dickhead. It just makes you the bigger dickhead.
Because it's something crybabies would whine repeatedly, bashing their fists against the ground.
You have no RIGHT to EMAIL. There is no "Pursuit of Life, Liberty, Happiness and 100% working email".
If you lay down with dogs (have a spam supporting ISP), you get fleas (people don't want to deal with your email because your ISP doesn't give a fsck about fixing their problems)
People Talking in Movie shows.. people smoking in bed.. people voting republican.. GIVE THEM A BOOT TO THE HEAD!
don't blame Joe Jared. Blame the fucknuts who are DDoS'ing him off the face of the planet.
Public blacklists were tried.. and they were harassed, death threated and sued into oblivion.
Semi-Private Blacklists like Osirussoft has been tried. It hurts the spammers so much that they write viruses specifically to get around it and try to DDoS it off the net.
You won't like the next step.
What's coming will make SPEWS look like responsible.
Remember Pandora's Box? I sure do.
People Talking in Movie shows.. people smoking in bed.. people voting republican.. GIVE THEM A BOOT TO THE HEAD!
I read a lot of fanfic, and original fiction on the net. I like to zip off little 'Hey, I liked your story' notes, often to people I have never communicated with. I can do this because its easy and I like giving authors feedback. Your solution will make it incredibly difficult to start a dialogue with strangers.
Whitelists and blacklists, 'us and them' policies... I'm guessing you're american.
Yay me!
Why the fuck not? His stupidity, blacklisting the whole world, has just made all offsite blacklists useless.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
**cough** bullshit **cough**
If you can't follow simple directions, how the hell did you pass the third-grade?
If you can't set up a server correctly in the first place, how the hell did you become a system admin?
Good Riddance to BAD rubbish!