You do realize that Paul Graham is in the business of pushing Bayesian anti-spam filtering, which he claims as 'the best' solution to spam. For a long time Graham has been spreading FUD about other anti-spam solutions, in particular blocklists. We're well used to hearing utter bollocks about blocklists spread by him.
Yesterday we listed on the SBL an IP of a spammer which as luck would have it is being shared by Paul Graham. We of course can not simply give the spammer carte blanche to spam our users because Paul Graham is also using the same IP. Graham has no concern for the fact he's sharing his IP with a spammer, and rather than contact his ISP to ask what a spammer is doing sharing his IP he simply sees a PR oppurtunity to bolster his "blocklists are evil, bayesian is good" campaign. I'm only surprized this actually made Slashdot.
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Gentlemen,
You do realize that Paul Graham is in the business of pushing Bayesian anti-spam filtering, which he claims as 'the best' solution to spam. For a long time Graham has been spreading FUD about other anti-spam solutions, in particular blocklists. We're well used to hearing utter bollocks about blocklists spread by him.
Yesterday we listed on the SBL an IP of a spammer which as luck would have it is being shared by Paul Graham. We of course can not simply give the spammer carte blanche to spam our users because Paul Graham is also using the same IP. Graham has no concern for the fact he's sharing his IP with a spammer, and rather than contact his ISP to ask what a spammer is doing sharing his IP he simply sees a PR oppurtunity to bolster his "blocklists are evil, bayesian is good" campaign. I'm only surprized this actually made Slashdot.
Steve Linford, CEO, Spamhaus