The author of this article is obviously a spammer who got his peepee whacked.
The problem was, as vigilantes so often do, the guys at MAPS got carried away. They started to include servers on the list that they knew were not sources of spam, to pressure whoever owned the server to do what they wanted. For example, in order to get revenge on people they believed were spamming, MAPS would blacklist the mail server of the company hosting their site.
When the MAPS guys complained to the hosting company that their client was spamming, they took no action. They let their client spam.
So, logically, the hoster, by letting it's client spam, is also a spammer, albeit indirectly.
So, it's only normal and logical that the hoster be also listed by the blacklist!
The idea of a blocklist is to cut spamming at the source. Very often, hosters will move spammers around, giving them a new IP address when the old one gets blocked. So it's normal that blocklist operators eventually tire of playing whack-a-mole and simply block the whole network.
When anyone let spammers roam freely on his network, they are spam supporters and deserve to be blocked.
And spam support need not be only letting spam e-mails out, but it can also be the provision of any kind of internet service to spammers, like DNS, domain registration or hosting of a spamvertized website.
So, yes, it is only fair to also blacklist ISPs who, even though they don't let spam flow out of their networks, nevertheless provide spammers with valuable services such as domain registration, DNS or web-hosting.
If no one would provide spammers those vital services, spammers would vanish quickly.
So, until spammers vanish, rogue ISPs who provide spammer services will be fair-game for blacklists.
I help run The Mail Archive which is one of the larger mailing list archive sites, covering several thousand lists. What specifically would you like to see improved about navigation?
Nothing. I popped-in for a look, and your user-interface is flawless: no goddammed un-intuitive navigation buttons, but instead a clean indented list of messages. (but maybe you could add the date/time of each message in the list, though).
Could someone explain how other crap search engines are getting high rankings in Google search?
That's not as bad as getting mailing list archives. You search for a particular Linux error message, and what you get is archives of mailing list messages of guys who ask precisely the same question, with a lot of "me too" follow-ups, but no definite answer to your problem, that is if you can manage to find the link that leads to the follow-ups... Because heaven forbids mailing list archive software offers standardized navigation...
PS (OT) -- is anyone else having trouble with IP bans on slashdot? I get 2 downmods on apost and suddenly I'm IP banned! I only got this posted through Tor, but that's not that much better as slashdot blocks most of the nodes there too. Any help?
Happens to me, too. So, whenever I'm banned, I "metamoderate" all proposed moderations to "unfair".
It was only a minor strategic error which caused Hitler to lose the war after that. The Germans could have allied with the US against the USSR - they could have sold this by helping the US to dispose of its two biggest world competitors (the UK and the USSR) in short order.
On the other hand, this makes some sense. The French not only participated in Concorde, but have been making supersonic fighter jets for a long time. It appears France is only country who can still build supersonic jets with 100% ingenious technology. And it's a major member of the European consortium (Airbus).
There have long been a frustration in the Japanese aerospace industry that the Americans banned them from pursuing cutting edge aerospace technology after the WWII. It is a commonly held view that the US didn't want Japan to acquire know-how in that area so that she can independently develop and compete in the military aircraft field. (Mitsubishi, Kawasaki, and Subaru used to make airplanes. Look where they went.) So, the US kept supplying technology to Japan while not allowing ingenious know-how to accumulate.
France was very lucky. Roosevelt wanted to totally annihilate it's industrial facilities and occupy it like it occupied Germany and Japan; it is only thanks to De Gaulle who managed to convince him that the Résistance (who was so effective in preparing the D-Day invasion) would turn against the yankees that he relented and let the French keep their industrial base, allowing it to become the technological powerhouse it is now, instead of being forced to use substandard and expensive US technology.
Engine technology has advanced a bit more than you suggested, especially for supersonic aircraft. Chief example is the F-22 that can fly supersonic without afterburner.
Er... The Concorde's Olympus engines DID allow it to fly supersonic WITHOUT afterburners. The afterburners were used on take-off to allow it to accelerate to the higher take-off speed it needed to get aloft, hence it's horrenduously loud noise on takeoff...
Like it's predecessor, it won't be allowed to land in the USA for some kind of bullshit reason, thanks to the "Not Invented Here" syndrome that's so popular with yankees.
And when you're not allowed to land in the USA, you're just as doomed as Concorde was.
It won't attract the bullshit-oriented USA airlines (they're bankrupt anyways, so they won't be able to afford it - and there is no way the US government will allow them to buy even just one after all the billions they poured in the ailing airlines after 9/11) so all it will do is fly the Paris_Tokyo route if it's ever built.
I am French. We trust the government far more than we trust private companies (as a matter of fact, we suffered so much in the past at the hands of entrepreneurs that it is unlikely we will stop counting on the government to protect us against private companies). So, yes, we would rather have the government decide what is theft and what isn't (hint: intellectual "property" can't be stolen).
(hint: in my country, the Supreme Court has decided that sharing music online isn't theft).
Truly an hardass answer. Profit is not something that is absolutely guaranteed, nor that should be absolutely protected by law.
A croporation abusing of it's monopoly surely deserves to be ripped-off; this is what reverse-engineering does, and as such, shall be entirely protected by law, simply as a message to potential abusive monopolists.
Isn't this a bad thing? You would never catch typos when using variables. I start using a variable named "myBigNumber" then the next day I mistakenly start using a "myBigNum" variable even though I mean the same thing.
It is, indeed, a bad thing.
This is why I *ALWAYS* begin my PHP scripts with:
Right now, not many people share or download movies. Right now, studios and organizations like the MPAA are trying to stifle people's ability to do so. Right now, it is still happening (witness all of the hoopla over Revenge of the Sith). The more they fight it, the more they publicize it and the more people will do it.
What you really mean to say is "The more you tighten your grip, the more [movies] will slip through your fingers"...
will decide that they don't need a broadcast flag in order to license their movies for high-def broadcast. At that point they will have the entire market to themselves and it will be easy money to fullfill that previously unmet market demand.
The counterargument is that without the protection of the broadcast flag, this company will be pirated right out of business, so that instead of a thriving market, there will be a barren wasteland.
Despite piracy (witness how much money the DVDs and CDs are raking-in for the *AA members), the only player in the un"protected" HDTV movie market will **STILL** make much more money than the non-players...
Even though I personally, as a believer in Christ, am against homosexuality, I don't believe passing laws blocking the behavior is the answer.
You didn't know that Jesus H. Fucking Christ was a faggot? I mean, he never married and was hanging out with all those guys. And at the last supper he clearly asked for a rimjob:
Jesus spread his buns and said "Eat, for this is my body".
Wasn't it Ayn Rand who said something like "you can't rule free men", and that the only way for the government to control everyone is to make them criminals?
Ayn Rand was a total and absolute asshole who was longing for the caveman days where the one with the biggest stick could beat the shit out of anyone else for no reason whatsoever.
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So, logically, the hoster, by letting it's client spam, is also a spammer, albeit indirectly.
So, it's only normal and logical that the hoster be also listed by the blacklist!
The idea of a blocklist is to cut spamming at the source. Very often, hosters will move spammers around, giving them a new IP address when the old one gets blocked. So it's normal that blocklist operators eventually tire of playing whack-a-mole and simply block the whole network.
When anyone let spammers roam freely on his network, they are spam supporters and deserve to be blocked.
And spam support need not be only letting spam e-mails out, but it can also be the provision of any kind of internet service to spammers, like DNS, domain registration or hosting of a spamvertized website.
So, yes, it is only fair to also blacklist ISPs who, even though they don't let spam flow out of their networks, nevertheless provide spammers with valuable services such as domain registration, DNS or web-hosting.
If no one would provide spammers those vital services, spammers would vanish quickly.
So, until spammers vanish, rogue ISPs who provide spammer services will be fair-game for blacklists.
And when you're not allowed to land in the USA, you're just as doomed as Concorde was.
It won't attract the bullshit-oriented USA airlines (they're bankrupt anyways, so they won't be able to afford it - and there is no way the US government will allow them to buy even just one after all the billions they poured in the ailing airlines after 9/11) so all it will do is fly the Paris_Tokyo route if it's ever built.
(hint: in my country, the Supreme Court has decided that sharing music online isn't theft).
A croporation abusing of it's monopoly surely deserves to be ripped-off; this is what reverse-engineering does, and as such, shall be entirely protected by law, simply as a message to potential abusive monopolists.
No, I meant that typoes in your source code would not check as logical errors... :)
One word: "Typoes".
This is why I *ALWAYS* begin my PHP scripts with:
Oh, wait...
Either force people to travel naked, or to wear spandex.
You should read "The Da Vinci code" a little bit less... :)
Because Ayn Rand is always quoted by cavemen assholes (some of them have moderator status, it seems).
Jesus spread his buns and said "Eat, for this is my body".