Re: Need web server recommendation
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 06:45:16PM -0600, Vector wrote:
> Ease up chief, as I understand it, these days lots of folks are getting
> black listed even though they are not spammers. As far as I can tell SPEWS
> is the worst about it. They have not problem blocking legitimate businesses
> who have never sent a bit of spam in their lifetime simply because the
> netblock they were allocated comes close to a spammer. They expand their
> black hold to consume and hurt the upstream provider, even though the
> upstream provider may not be directly spamming either. I'm not willing to
> get into an ethical or philosophical discussion about this practice, just
> recognize that because some says 'I can't through the spam filter' can no
> longer legitimately be translated into 'hey, I'm a spammer.'
Indeed. For a short time recently, for instance, master.debian.org was
blacklisted by spamcop.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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