SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @09:14PM from the but-they're-good-guys dept.

Kylow writes "Last year, Slashdot publicized our efforts at DSL Reports to pursue a group of spammers who had spammed our forums. The Slashdot community immediately pitched in to help, and the publicity wiped the sites owned by the spammers off the internet. Fast-forward to today, and the popular yet often draconian block-list SPEWS has added DSL Reports to their blocklist due to the activities of other websites hosted on NAC.net. DSL Reports users are less than happy. This is hardly the first time SPEWS has been accused of going too far."

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Re:The problem with lists like SPEWS... by epiphani · 2004-01-20 21:26 · Score: 1, Redundant

Exactly. NAC has been what I would call a "good supporter of internet society" offering decent services and a good location without degrading into a plain and outright capitalist corporation. They've sponsored IRC servers for the major networks free of charge when few others would.

This kind of action is totally uncalled for.

(Disclaimer: I do not work for nac.net, however i have been involved with the administration an IRC network that linked one of their servers.)

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