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Anti-Spammers DDoSed Out Of Existence

Posted by timothy on from the calls-for-punitive-measures dept.

Anonumous Coward writes "Not one, but two anti-spam services announced their closure yesterday due to DDoS attacks, massive Joe jobs, threats, and the total lack of interest shown by law enforcement. monkeys.com pulled the plug at midnight with an announcement that makes you think of a suicide note. Short time later compu.net went the very same way. So, when will we see a distributed RBL that can stand up to distributed attacks?"

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  1. I'm sure glad... by macdaddy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...I posted this to Slashdot YESTERDAY. Why is it that all the really good article submissions are rejected and the short detail-lacking ones by ACs are accepted?

    1. Re:I'm sure glad... by njdj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Why is it that all the really good article submissions are rejected
      ... while there are so many duplicates and so many rubbish articles?

      Because the Moderation system is broken. Moderators can moderate only comments. Article acceptances/rejections are many times more important.

      Editors whose choices are consistently modded down (or never modded up) should be given the boot.

  2. From the Quizling Department by the_flatlander · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I, for one, welcome our new SPAM Overlords....

  3. Re:Spammer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    BEDEMIR: How do you know he is a spammer?
    VILLAGER #2: He sounds like one.
    BEDEMIR: Bring him forward.
    SPAMMER: I'm not a spammer. I'm not a spammer.
    BEDEMIR: But you post like one.
    SPAMMER: They made me sound like one.
    CROWD: No, we didn't... no.
    SPAMMER: And this isn't my meaning, they put words in my mouth.
    BEDEMIR: Well?
    VILLAGER #1: Well, we did that.
    BEDEMIR: You did?
    VILLAGER #1: And the hat -- but he is a spammer, he disagrees with us!
    CROWD: Burn him! Witch! Witch! Burn him!
    BEDEMIR: Did you twist his words?
    CROWD: No, no... no ... yes. Yes, yes, a bit, a bit.
    VILLAGER #1: His has got a wart.
    BEDEMIR: What makes you think he is a spammer?
    VILLAGER #3: Well, he convinced me that herbal medicine would make my penis grow.
    BEDEMIR: Did it?
    VILLAGER #3: No.
    VILLAGER #2: Burn him anyway!
    CROWD: Burn! Burn him!
    BEDEMIR: Quiet, quiet. Quiet! There are ways of telling whether he is a spammer.
    CROWD: Are there? What are they?
    BEDEMIR: Tell me, what do you do with spammers?
    VILLAGER #2: Burn!
    CROWD: Burn, burn them up!
    BEDEMIR: And what do you burn apart from spammers?
    VILLAGER #1: More witches!
    VILLAGER #2: Wood!
    BEDEMIR: So, why do spammers burn?
    [pause]
    VILLAGER #3: B--... 'cause they're made of wood...?
    BEDEMIR: Good!
    CROWD: Oh yeah, yeah...
    BEDEMIR: So, how do we tell whether he is made of wood?
    VILLAGER #1: Build a bridge out of him.
    BEDEMIR: Aah, but can you not also build bridges out of stone?
    VILLAGER #2: Oh, yeah.
    BEDEMIR: Does wood sink in water?
    VILLAGER #1: No, no.
    VILLAGER #2: It floats! It floats!
    VILLAGER #1: Throw him into the pond!
    CROWD: The pond!
    BEDEMIR: What also floats in water?
    VILLAGER #1: Bread!
    VILLAGER #2: Apples!
    VILLAGER #3: Very small rocks!
    VILLAGER #1: Cider!
    VILLAGER #2: Great gravy!
    VILLAGER #1: Cherries!
    VILLAGER #2: Mud!
    VILLAGER #3: Churches -- churches!
    VILLAGER #2: Lead -- lead!
    ARTHUR: A duck.
    CROWD: Oooh.
    BEDEMIR: Exactly! So, logically...,
    VILLAGER #1: If... he.. weighs the same as a duck, he's made of wood.
    BEDEMIR: And therefore--?
    VILLAGER #1: A spammer!
    CROWD: A spammer!
    BEDEMIR: We shall use my larger scales!
    [yelling]
    BEDEMIR: Right, remove the supports!
    [whop]
    [creak]
    CROWD: A spammer! A spammer!
    SPAMMER: It's a fair cop.
    CROWD: Burn him! Burn! [yelling]
    BEDEMIR: Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
    ARTHUR: I am Arthur, King of the Britons.
    BEDEMIR: My liege!
    ARTHUR: Good Sir knight, will you come with me to Camelot,
    and join us at the Round Table?
    BEDEMIR: My liege! I would be honored.
    ARTHUR: What is your name?
    BEDEMIR: Bedemir, my leige.
    ARTHUR: Then I dub you Sir Bedemir, Knight of the Round Table.

  4. Re:Good riddance by PincheGab · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Troll? I post a description of a bad experience I had and I am labeled a troll? Geez!

  5. Kill the spammers by deathofcats · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This news really sucks, because as a techie who provides list hosting for groups, I was hoping that some relief from spam was around the corner.

    I'm so sick of spam that I've rethought my stance on the death penalty. After years of activism against it, I know support it's application against spammers. In my book, spammers are worse than other criminals because they are so in your face with their anti-social behavior.

    What we need is a national list of home addresses of spammers, distributed via p2p services. This would allow people who are sick of spam to exercise whatever form of creative justice they want on spammers.