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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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  1. Serves you right for using a fronsay ISP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So use noos, "nwa" for your courriel, and wonder why you get blocked. Thats what you get for being a cheese eating surrender monkey.

  2. That's an insult to French people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Some of them don't really like cheese.

  3. Re:Most Spammers Are American by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You realize you are posting this to site of PRO-AMERICANs? They b elive America is all-great and All powerful.
    Your posting about a country that wants to send its chnildren to death in the name of "Democracy." Not the true reason of money. No Bush doesn't want money, he wants freedome just like his rich...dad.

    Fuck Bush, Cheny, and the other Repbulicans.

  4. Re:Most Spammers Are American by shaneb11716 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's a good thing you're such an anonymous coward or we would Bless you with our nuclear might.

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  5. Re:Most Spammers Are American by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You should stop masturbating to Bush speeches and do a little reality check. You don't have nuclear might. You probably don't even have a fast car or a girlfriend. And you can be glad if you're mighty enough to actually get an erection.

  6. Re:Most Spammers Are American by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You forgot one. FUCK YOU

  7. Re:Social what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    French ISP.... thats the secret. What the fuck do you expect from the frogs??? The country is full of cunts, run by cunts who dont give a fuck about anything other than their cunty country....

  8. Re:Most Spammers Are American by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    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.

  9. Re:Most Spammers Are American by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

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  10. Re:Most Spammers Are American by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All right, I'll bite

    Thanks! You know, no matter what you say, you've already lost by replying alone.

    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?

    Hello? How many so-called democratic nations today use up an amount of their power for stupid, pointless wars comparable to the US? (relative to their size and power of course) Could it be that you pretty much stand out as the only one?

    since you humanoid asses from overseas foisted this "global economy" horsehockey upon us

    Uhhh... wasn't that your idea? So you could further increase the gap between poor and rich?

    we'll bloody damn well take the rest of you with us

    That's ok with me. In fact, I'm so bored with your stupidity that when WW3 comes, I'll gladly enlist in Europe's army to kick the crap out of some Americunts. (Yeah yeah, I know, there won't be much asskicking because we'll nuke each other, but with some luck I'll get to shoot some of you malnutritioned fatties in the face first)

    Don't bother replying, I'm really not interested.

    I bothered anyway. Because yes, you are interested. Don't lie to yourself about that. It's enough that you can't admit having voted for some kind of human monkey as president.