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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."

3 of 611 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Definitely a bad idea... by Triumph+The+Insult+C · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, I do get it. I have.

    What I do is get a new ISP that doesn't allow spammers.

    Simple. Problem resolved.

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  2. Re:Pure and simple... by Megor1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lol for fun look up the picture of the guy that runs spambag and then ask yourself if you want him telling you who can send you mail (It's a Jem)

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  3. Re:Wrong by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Troll
    What they do is allow others to block email between two diffrent people, simply because they run the mail servers that sit between them. If it was only individual users who were using these blocklists, it would be a diffrent issue. But it's not.
    I operate my OWN MAIL SERVER ON MY VERY OWN NETWORK. Those are MY PRIVATE PROPERTY, so I MAKE MY OWN GODDAMMED RULES and I DECIDE WHO CAN CONNECT TO MY NETWORK OR NOT. For this, blocklists are invaluable because other people do the gruntwork of discovering the IP addresses of others.

    In a nutshell, it's "MY NETWORK, MY RULES". Got any problem with that???