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TamaraB
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Re: Why not to use SPEWS

said by AmeritecTech See Profile:
What money do you think BBR uses to pay its hosting costs?
I am responsible for who I support. I support BBR, which is NOT spam friendly.

BBR is responsible for who they support! That is entirely their business! And BBR will have to deal with whatever consequences arise or don't arise as a result of their decissions.

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nil
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Funny, that's what I've been saying about Nac.


TamaraB
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It's interesting that the discussion here has focused on the evils of SPEWS, with little discussion of NAC's failure to deal with its spam problem. Not to mention, zero suggestions about how else to punish people who sell fake drugs and send porn to kids.
It's called being safe comfortable, and lazy. People don't want to be bothered with having to do any work, they don't want to suffer any discomfort, risk, or inconvience, they just want the problem to go away all by itself, without any cost, without any discomfort, and without any risk.

I wonder... would this thread even have started if BBR did not appear on a level [2] listing? Now spews is an inconvience to Nil, so therefor spews is now evil. Spews was not evil last week. Why? Because there was no inconvience caused by a very effective BL last week. Why isn't NAC deemed evil? You see?

That's childish, and one of the reasons we are in the state we are currently in i'm afraid!

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Give me some credit, I've ranted about draconian tactics of some blacklist for a long time now and I never agreed with this as a right way to fight spam.

On the other hand, I have actively acted against spam for years.. so you're saying my opinion on this doesn't count because it's against spews? It's not just an inconvenience for me and dslreports.. it affects Internet as a whole and helps anti-spam activists to be discounted as extremists in midst of a witch hunt.
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TamaraB
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Funny, that's what I've been saying about Nac.
You mean you see no difference between the two??

BBR does NOT support hackers, porners, and spammers by providing them space to operate on this Board! By contrast, NAC provides ip-space to the same, and they make money off of them. Does BBR make money from illegal and immoral users? No!

The difference is stark, I am surprised you can't see the difference.

Captain Bob
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nil
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Forget it, I've had enough playing ping-pong for the day.


AmeritecTech
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There are two sites listed on the RBL entry.

Gordontower.com says "project closed" on the front page and is apparently dead.

sm1l1ngcustomerscomeback.com is not hosted on NAC any longer. It resolves to 209.113.236.162 which is owned by Network Innovations.

So aside from terminating the spammers, what can NAC do to get back in the good graces of SPEWS? Nothing.
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Independent thinkers tend to ALWAYS have someone not agreeing with them. It's the non-thinkers that always come in legions." -John Callari


TamaraB
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Give me some credit, I've ranted about draconian tactics of some blacklist for a long time now and I never agreed with this as a right way to fight spam.
Every "blacklist" is very well defined in terms of who they list and how. Every one of them, has a website, and their operations are clearly defined. Have you seen csma.biz for instance? A list of ANY spammer ip-range who have EVER sent them even one spam. Each sysadmin has the responsibility to use or not to use any list as they see fit.

For some applications a "draconian" blacklist is quite appropriate, for others it's not. Ranting against a "list" is not entirely appropriate, rant instead against it's particular use perhaps, but not the list itself. After all, it's only information, no one is forced to use a particular list.

Captain Bob
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AmeritecTech
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said by TamaraB See Profile:
For some applications a "draconian" blacklist is quite appropriate, for others it's not. Ranting against a "list" is not entirely appropriate, rant instead against it's particular use perhaps, but not the list itself. After all, it's only information, no one is forced to use a particular list.
Likewise, no one is forced to listen to a particular rant. Yet you continue to chastise nil's rant.
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A rather whiny and tired nil by now

Anyway, it seems this discussion is just going in circles.. we each have our opinions and doesn't look like anyone will change theirs. Can we agree to disagree and move on?
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AmeritecTech
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Sounds good.


Steve
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said by AmeritecTech See Profile:
Yet you continue to chastise nil's rant.
She's fun to chastise


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reply to Mordy
I'd like to see the SPEWS lunacy involved here get
Slashdotted. In spite of the excessive traffic that would
be generated here at BBR, that kind of publicity would
do well to point out the damage that SPEWS causes to
innocent thrid parties that happen to be in the same
netblock as spammers. And at /., it would reach a good
target audience.
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Actually, slashdot hardly makes a dent in our traffic when they link to us, so wouldn't be excessive at all
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AmeritecTech
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They made a 90 page dent for that spammer hunt!


Mordy
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reply to nil
Well, someone with more influence needs to post to Slashdot...I submitted last night, but no luck yet.
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TamaraB
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said by AmeritecTech See Profile:
So aside from terminating the spammers, what can NAC do to get back in the good graces of SPEWS? Nothing.
NAC.NET has to terminate all their spammers to get de-listed from spews. That's the way spews works. They (NAC) are rife with spammers. See: »www.lxhp.in-berlin.de/spamsites/···NET.html for a partial current list. NAC also needs to be responsive to complaints, they need to explain what steps they have taken to insure that new spammers will not replace the old ones...

I am not spews, but this is what I have observed, mainly on News://news.admin.net-abuse.email If you go to NANAE and read a bit, you will understand what the process is. Many providers are de-listed all the time. It's not impossible, it's quite common actually.

Captain Bob
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nil
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I have no influence

I do think that more attention to the issue might be good for everyone involved though.. except maybe the spammers.
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jspreha

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reply to nil
said by nil See Profile:
Actually, slashdot hardly makes a dent in our traffic when they link to us, so wouldn't be excessive at all

I believe that is about to change very shortly.

New slashdot story is soon to appear to the masses.


some lam0r

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f1r5T pS0t

wwwwoooooooooooot!

(sincerely hope you solve your spamadelic problems)
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