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DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the the-attacks-keep-coming dept.

Hiawatha writes "The same sort of denial of service attacks that drove spam blocklist Osirusoft off the Internet are battering many other blocklist services as well." Apparently spammers aren't going to sit by and let people try to ignore their unwanted pitches.

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  1. Re:Wow... by aliens · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Theory: aliens

    Evidence: Insider information.

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  2. Re:Why does he think it's spammers? by randyest · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The innocents are unable to do anything about the people they are affiliated with.

    Really? What law requires the "innocents" to stay with a spam-friendly ISP? Or did you mean unwilling instead of unable?

    in the short term, the people punished have no real control over the situation.

    Other than the 100% control afforded by their free choice of any ISP they want to go with, yeah, I guess you're right.

    The honest non-spammers will continue to not spam, but be incredibly inconvenienced, while the spammers will ignore the edict and run around spamming on other networks.

    Ah, but as long as SPEWS is up and running, and as more and more admins use SPEWS or similar, the behavior and work-around attempts of the spammers becomes more and more irrlevant.

    If it didn't/doesn't work, why were so many spammers unhappy with SPEWS?

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