On Tuesday 01 October 2002 16:45, Andy Hsu wrote:
> Had to get my 2-cents in because my company was a recent victim of
> SPEWS. A few months back, our /26 block was listed as part of a /24
> block due to a spammer that used to reside on a /26 above us. Since the
> only way to contact the SPEWS administrators was through their
> newsgroup, I left a post asking to be delisted, and received the
> newsgroup equivalent of a public crucifixion in return. The reasoning
> behind their refusal to delist us was that as a customer of WorldCom, we
> were as bad as the spammers. We've since found a way around the
> problem, but I strongly recommend avoiding this list. I've rarely
> encountered a more unreasonable group of people.
>
> -Andy
>
Andy,

I encountered a similar reception on the spamcop mail list and only because I
expressed the view that it was not ethical to harm the innocent in order to
punish the guilty. The really funny part of it was that during the couple of
days I was nosing around the list, the list's AV product sent out a half
dozen warnings about virus-laden email sent by the lsits subscribers. These
folks really know how to button up their computers!

Seriously though, we won't use spews and several others because of their
scatter-gun method. We won't use duls because it punishes the innocent as
well as the guilty and we won't use rfc-ignorant because non-compliance does
not mean doing harm. Just my 3 cents.

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