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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'."
This specifically states that it's still free for noncommercial use. The companies will hand over the bones and we can continue using their wonderful services to stop spam before it hits us.
(P.S. Domkore fails it, propz to GNAA.)
spammers can never be defeated. Those who are well endowed and have university diplomas will never be stopped.
why is this a good thing for a user who doesn't have to deal with spam? I get maybe one spam e-mail a day.
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Something like Somalia or Afghanistan?
Because there is only one computer in afghanistan, according to a news story I read a year or so ago. And that one computer is so filled with spyware that it's almost unusable.
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I took a shit dark as coal last night.
It looked like charcoal
When I checked the
Paper I just wiped my ass
With.
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1) unplug router
2) wait 30 seconds
3) plug router back in.
I can post again, you cock-smoking teabaggers!
You know what, I'm going to drop every third TCP packet I receive that's to or from port 25. That'll teach 'em pesky spammers! So what if programs I use can't send email any more? That's just those stupid programmer's fault, morons who are unable to keep up with the latest arbitrary anti-spam systems. Fact is, most spam I see goes via port 25 so this is perfectly legitimate!
When are you fucking morons going to quit it with the dumb filters and actually adopt something that works? You people have done everything you can to make sending email a PITA. Email used to be zero-configuration, now every time we connect to the frickin' Internet we need to set up a whole raft of configuration options. Suddenly it was "Thou must use the (entirely RFC-non-compliant) official SMTP server for this ISP", now it's "Thou must use the official SMTP server for this ISP unless thou is sending email under an address tied to a different ISP in which case thou must connect, no matter what the hardships, directly to the other ISP's modem banks".
And has it helped? Has it? Judging from my Yahoo.com address, I'd have to say, in two words, "FUCK NO". There's more spam on the Internet than ever before. All you've done is turn spamming into some great game, a contest for black hats to figure out how to get past the latest filter, while simultaneously restricting legitimate use of the Internet.
Systems exist that are 100% spam proof, and punish companies that sell email addresses or spam their own customers. They never generate false positives. But right now, with the honorable exception of Yahoo, nobody commercial seems to want to adopt them. Why? BECAUSE IT'S TOO MUCH FUN FUCKING THINGS UP FOR EVERYONE ELSE.
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