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Paul Graham Describes Dangers of Spam Blacklists

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Re:Language by Vainglorious+Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Besides, isn't it african american, not black?

    Who said anything about American?

    On a practical level, "block list" and "accept list" are just much better descriptions of what such lists actually do.

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