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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
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.
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.