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:More accurately... by 91degrees · 2004-01-20 22:25 · Score: 2, Troll

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.