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SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List
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."
DSLR/BBR sucks anyways. I should know. I've been posting there since September 22, 2001. Their news is slow to get posted and the forums are way overmoderated.
Case in point:
Your account has been banned from posting until 2048-02-23 23:28:33 for TOS violations.
Stuck? try the help forum
With a name like SPEWS do you really expect a quality service here? If I just heard that name I would imagine it was a porn site dedicated to streaming video.
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Hmm.. maybe that is a quality service, I may have spoken too soon.
This is so that ISPs will either learn to take ALL complaints seriously
But will have the effective result of everyone treating SPEWS less seriously.
ISPs have their own processes for dealing with complaints. Sometimes these are inadequate, but SPEWS seems to consider themselves the sole authority on the matter. They are not. They're just a bunch of jumped up nerds with way too much power, and rapidly falling credibility.
The ones who have SOLE authority on the matter are the administrators who CHOOSE to use SPEWS,
Ah. another lot of jumped up nerds with way too much power.
As someone involved with running some servers I can tell you some facts about these ISP. The first are way more expensive then the last. Strange eh?
Either move to a better ISP or learn to live with the fact the email has freedom. This includes the freedom for me to block you. There is no right to send email to anyone.
Ask yourselve this. Do I gotta open your mail? Do I gotta answer your telephone call? Do I gotta open the door for you? Do I have to answer your question when you approach me in the street? No, no, no and no. So why on earth do you demand that I accept your email?
If you are on SPEWS or another blacklist then your ISP sucks. Get a better one for email (you can still host your site there just requires slightly more skill to setup) alone, shouldn't cost much unless of course you spam.
BUT STOP THINKING THE WORLD HAS A DUTY TO RECEIVE EMAIL FROM EVERY KNOW SPAMHOLE IN THE WORLD.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Doing nothing also does not work. A combination of all these things might work. What have we got to loose?
What have we got to lose? Maybe you should study the history of what we lost when Joe McCarthy went on his rampage against a similarly containable 'threat' in the 1950's....
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Try that kind of thing in real life and see what it gets you. See how far you get by arguing that every person in the mob joined voluntarily, and hence you're not really culpable for inciting a riot....
ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Don't call a black a black(use what THEY want you to use)
and
Don't call spam spam then.
You guy(or black girl) are a racist.
What the hell, is there now a B word not to be used?
What am I then if not white? What terms do 'blacks' use to describe non-blacks? Whitey I guess is ok?
And don't tell me that you all, once in a group do not dare use the word WHITE. Like as in white policeman or white asshole or whatever.
I was in a theatre is a suburb that was once unmixed. I sat down in a upper row seat with no one around. A large group of teenage blacks walked in a did a very odd dance just so that one of them would not have to sit in a chair next to me.
Had the same thing happen in a restaurant at the table next to me and my wife where a black dude and a black chick would NOT sit down at the table next to us but continued to stand and wait for the waiter to come back and move them.
Don't preach this bullshit fella.
Last month in Washington DC a group of 'white-challenged- gangbangers surrounded our car and we almost got ripped. Yeah they can have firearms there and rape and pillage but whiteboy can't or he goes to jail.
Funny how things are seen different on YOUR side of the color line. Funny how gangbangers are given a free ride. How the mayor of DC could be a pimping druggie and get by with it.
Yep its OT just like the parent is so mod it the hell down why don't you?
I don't do business with anyone who uses SPEWS.
Anyone using SPEWS is either lazy, ignorant, or could care less about the right way to do things.
Anyone bitching about getting blocked by SPEWS, but not dealing with it properly by threatening their spam-friendly ISP or moving to one that's not spam-friendly is either lazy, ignorant or is themselves spam-friendly.
I reserve the right to block those who tolerate spam-friendly ISPs, get over it.
...you don't get blacklisted for a single spammer, you get blacklisted for being RFC ignorant and not working your abuse desk properly. You are wrong, full stop.
I call Godwin...