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Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 13, 2011 @05:35AM from the my-way-or-the-highway dept.

judgecorp writes "Dutch ISP A2B has filed police complaints against anti-spam project Spamhaus, calling its CEO 'nuts' and accusing him of blackmail. Spamhaus added all A2B's addresses to a spam blacklist, when A2B did not obey the letter of its demands in blocking a spammer."

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Re:Incorrect summary by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-13 05:47 · Score: 5, Insightful

If spamhaus starts blacklisting entities that do not spam, people will stop trusting and using spamhaus. Police or no, Spamhaus is harming itself when it oversteps its natural bounds.