Why Blacklisting Spammers Is A Bad Idea

Roland Piquepaille writes "For the last two months, an eternity in Internet time, I was unable to reach -- and to contribute to -- Smart Mobs, the collective blogging effort around the next social revolution initiated by Howard Rheingold. Why that? Because an unknown customer of Verio decided it was a spamming site and asked the company to blacklist the site. Verio complied -- probably without even checking it -- and my problems started. It took me dozens of e-mails and phone calls and two visits to the headquarters of my french ISP, Noos, to fix the situation. More about this horror story is available here."

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Re:Most Spammers Are American

[ScrewMaster]

Isn't it amazing how Americunts will always stand up and defend leaders which actually hurt them and waste their money and lifes? The most brainwashed society ever after the Muslims.

Whatever, we'll just wait until their little fake economy collapses and see what they'll have to say then. Until then, enjoy watching Georgie Bush begging our governments for help in Iraq, because the little war is not profitable anymore.

-1 Flamebait, eh? All right, I'll bite, having nothing much else to do at the moment.

Leaders that waste money and "lifes". Hm. Let's see ... how much of this planet has been periodically devastated by foreign (that is, not American) leaders that waste money and "lifes"? And when that happens ... how many other nations turn to the U.S. to bail them out? To this very day?

Your ignorance of the American social and political systems is impressive, if otherwise unremarkable. The truth is that the War in Iraq has not received unilateral support from the citizenry. It is a significantly tendentious issue, and is constantly debated, analyzed and often criticized. So keep your opinions on our "brainwashedness" to yourself. It makes you appear stupid, and simply reinforces our generally poor opinion of foreigners.

You should probably take a look at how much of the world America's "little fake economy" props up. The sheer magnitude of foreign aid that flows from this country is unprecedented in all of human history. I might add that a lot of Americans aren't particularly happy with that, considering that it comes out of our pockets and many of the recipients don't seem to appreciate it very much. Furthermore, since you humanoid asses from overseas foisted this "global economy" horsehockey upon us, if and when our economy does collapse you can rest assured we'll bloody damn well take the rest of you with us! In the meantime: would you like some cheese with that whine?



Well, that was fun. I feel much better now. Don't bother replying, I'm really not interested. Have a nice day.