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On Futureproofing Spamhaus
BMcWilliams writes "Spamhaus director Steve Linford announced a new funding plan Tuesday. According to Linford's announcement, large ISPs and big corporate users of the Spamhaus zone transfer service (renamed the Spamhaus Data Feed Service) will be required to pay an annual subscription fee ranging between $190 and $14,500.(The free public-query mirrors will continue to exist.) The point of the new plan is to ensure that 'the millions of users who rely on our anti-spam systems can be assured we'll be here for as long as spammers plague the Internet'."
Would you expect to see it three times in a row if it was random?
haha good point.
u r not special. u r not a beautiful or unique snowflake. u r the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
It's logic. Big companies have no problem lying to their customers and making up fees. How about all those new fees you found on your phone bill with official looking names? Don't you think costs to customers will go up because of "Unwanted E-mail Filtering Services" and because it costs our ISP so much money to maintain, they'll "have to" raise prices by $2.95 every month.
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.
That's the problem with all vigilante based services.
There've been many horror stories about other BLs in the past.
Basically, once you're on you're on for eternity. Sometimes they will remove you once you pay them enough in ransom fees (oops, donations) but not always.