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Paul Graham Describes Dangers of Spam Blacklists

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 16, 2005 @07:19AM from the what-we're-stuck-with dept.

CRoby writes "Paul Graham posted an essay describing the danger and corruption of the main spammer blacklists today. It discusses MAPS and the SBL, the blacklist created to try to alleviate the abuses of MAPS, and suggests (maybe) another blacklist's creation."

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Re:Definitely a bad idea... by Neil+Blender · 2005-06-16 07:45 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Gee whiz. That's great for you and your little PHP blog that you use to write stories about your cat and host pictures of last week's bbq. However, that is not such a simple solution to someone who has 6 cabinets packed floor to ceiling with 1Us.