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Why Blacklisting Spammers Is A Bad Idea

Posted by timothy on from the painting-with-machine-gun dept.

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. Most Spammers Are American by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    God Bless America

    God Bless America, with the worst crime levels in the first world
    God Bless America, where "democracy" means a rich, white male as President
    God Bless America, the biggest consumer of the world's natural resources
    God Bless America, so happy to violate international laws
    God Bless America, where "freedom of speech" means race-hate groups like KKK
    God Bless America, and its massive and ever-growing poverty gap
    God Bless America, with barely 300 years of dire history and culture
    God Bless America, all its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony
    God Bless America, with the highest obesity levels in the developed world
    God Bless America, because corporations should be allowed to run amok
    God Bless America, wasting billions to attack foreign countries

    God Bless America, and thank God I don't have to live there.

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

      God Bless America, and thank God I don't have to live there.
      allow me to express my thanks for you not living here, too ... your absence from within our borders is truly a gift to us all.
  2. Run your own mail server on your own domain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And control the blacklists yourself. It's what I do.

    1. Re:Run your own mail server on your own domain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Moderation: Funny=4, Overrated=4
      Funny mods don't give karma, overrated takes away karma.
      Net karma change: -4

      Yes, Slashdot is punishing controversial humor this way - hell knows, why. You can burn as much karma as you like by posting an intelligent joke here, i.e. a joke that 50% of the moderators can't unterstand. Just watch the +1 funny, -1 overrated waves roll over you. The -1 overrated moderators will not even get punished by metamoderation, because "overrated" isn't metamoderated. And you can't discuss these things, because they will be rated "offtopic". This will be metamoderated, but the metamoderaters have to agree that the dissent was offtopic, because otherwise they will be removed from the metamoderation-pool temporarily. The system works, just watch me disapear!

  3. second post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cocks!! i love you boys and girls

    1. Re:second post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You FAIL it!

  4. !0th Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eat Shit and Die Motha Fucka!

  5. Social what? by davie · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yet another confusing explosion of tiny letters with a bad color scheme. Yeah, this is going to change the world. Or something.

    Hyperbole much?

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