---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:51:17 -0500 From: Richard Forno <rforno (at) infowarrior.org> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior (at) attrition.org> Subject: [Infowarrior] - Blog: SpamHaus - Irresponsible Net Citizens SpamHaus - Irresponsible Net Citizens I think in general that spam blocking databases are a good thing. I am as frustrated with spam as the next person. However, I think SpamHaus is irresponsible in the service they provide for the simple reason that they abuse their power and refuse to implement levels of granularity in their database. For example, right now my organization the Terrorism Research Center is being blocked by SpamHaus. We¹ve operated on the same single static IP address for five years and we have never had a complaint against our IP address with SpamHaus. So why are we being blocked? Because according to SpamHaus we live in a bad Internet neighborhood and should be blocked because another IP address in our same subnet sent a direct mailing for Staples. Instead of just blocking the IP address engaging in spamming, they are blocking the whole subnet! < - > http://blog.devost.net/2007/01/28/spamhaus-irresponsible-net-citizens/ _______________________________________________ Infowarrior mailing list Infowarrior (at) attrition.org https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/infowarrior _____________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isn
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