Trouble Getting to SpamCop?

geekwench writes "SpamCop was apparently the victim of a recent DoS attack. A false complaint to their domain registrar led to all primary DNS information being pulled. The problem is now fixed, but there may still be access issues for the next couple of days as ISPs clear the old DNS information out of their caches. You can read about it here and here. (Sounds to me as if SpamCop is proving to be a good-sized thorn in the sides of a number of spammers.)"

Comments

Re:ATTN: Webmaster of goatse.cx/hick.org

[October_30th]

Stuffed goatse-turkey, of course.

Re:2004 promises to be interesting

[PaleBoy]

I may be misinterpreting him, but I believe that the post you responded too was saying that sex is a way to maintain enough genetic variation to prevent parasites (viruses, for example) from destroying a species.

If reproduction was non-sexual, DNA wouldn't be as varied every generation, and easier for a parasite that figures out the right strategy to exploit. Think monocultures of genetic crops. All genetically identical...but if the right blight comes along, they will all perish.

However, there are some species on this planet who get by just fine without sexual reproduction. Some of the walking stick insects (Phasmatodea) can actually reproduce with or without a male! It's true!