DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists

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.

Comments

Re:Why does he think it's spammers?

[The Old Burke]

I hate spam with a passion, but words cannot describe my pleasure in seeing these blacklists, especially SPEWS, shut down. They are pure evil in their methods, and largely ineffective against spam while causing massive inconvenience for ISPs and legitimate users of the network.

Pure evil? So beacuse someone sets up a system to block those servers that allow spam this system becomes pure evil?

Legitimate users? I guess that you are refering to users that "accidentaly" rents space at the same place as some spam-house. Innefectiv? Yes maybe today, but not when they where updated and cheched?

All this leads me to the conclucion that since you are defending these spammers so frequently you are probably someone that supports or maybe earns money by harboring spam-bussinesses.

Re:Why does he think it's spammers?

[Eric Ass Raymond]

primarily because of excessively-ambitious analogies

Ok. No analogies.

Fuck you you SPEWS assholes! You blocked a perfect ISP for me.

I regard SPEWS as pure terrorism and I keep reporting you to the feds as such. Maybe some day they'll crack down on you.

I'd rather have spam than you.