Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

One Last Spamhaus Warning Before The End

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-down dept.

kog777 writes to mention that Spamhaus has released a final warning about an increase in junk email, as they prepare to lose their domain to an Illinois court ruling. From the article: "According to Spamhaus, more than 650 million Internet users - including those at the White House, the U.S. Army and the European Parliament - benefit from Spamhaus' 'blacklist' of spammers that helps identify which messages to block, send to a 'junk' folder or accept. Losing the domain name would make it more difficult for service providers and others to obtain the lists. 'If the domain got suspended, it would be an enormous hit for the Net,' said Steve Linford, Spamhaus' chief executive officer. 'It would create an enormous amount of damage on the Internet.'"

6 of 632 comments (clear)

  1. Damage is what USA does best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll


    One only has to read the news to see how much damage the USA does to the world, this will just add to that list, seriously its not the wild west anymore, you guys really need to shape up and get your act together before its too late

    i say let the spam commence, a few weeks of 50,000 viagra/stock scams/drugs emails a day to the whitehouse and goverment emails (not to mention economic powerhouse companies) should change their minds pronto

    Darren J

    1. Re:Damage is what USA does best by szembek · · Score: 0, Troll

      I think plenty of people will disagree with you. I notice you won't state where you are from, but apparently you live in a nation which does no wrong and everybody loves you. In fact the world loves America. As do I. Just because radicals and loonies are popping up more often with 'death to America' shit, doesn't mean that normal people across the globe don't like us. They fucking love us. They fucking love McDonald's, and they love MTV, and Levis. They love all of that shit. They also love when we pour billions of dollars into helping them. The good stuff that we do outweighs the bad stuff by such a large ratio that it doesn't even compare. Next time you decide to post some stupid anti-American shit on slashdot, Darren J, why don't you log in, and state what lovely nation you live in so I can bash it.

      --
      nothing
    2. Re:Damage is what USA does best by rkcth · · Score: 0, Troll

      National bigot.

  2. Re:Shoulda seen this coming... by rajafarian · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since when does the US have juristiction on (us) Europeans ?

    Since World War II, sir.

    Am I missing something ?

    A history book?

  3. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh boy, a "spam" blacklisting site closing its doors. Good fucking riddance.

    When are people going to realize that blacklisting causes more problems than it solves?

    --
    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
  4. We are a country of LAW... by mi · · Score: 0, Troll

    It may be a little more fashionable in a country without a Constitution to debate important issues politically, as Spamhaus is currently doing, rather than legally.

    But even there ignoring the legal system will cost you dearly.

    Courts and judges may be ignorant of the Internet, but you still have to call them "Your Hono(u)r", and using them — despite the ignorance — is still better than settling the matters via violence (either directly by the parties or by their champions), which is the only alternative currently known.

    --
    In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.