[Gllug] SPEWS (and Squid)

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 3 Jun 2003, will wrote:
>>David Dammerel whined:
>>>d) I suspect that many sysadmins that subscribe to Spews may not
>>>necessarily be aware that it blocks whole IP ranges in this manner. I
>>> was certainly considering
>>>the possibility of using a blacklist  (hadn't got very far down the
>>>road with my researches) and I naively assumed that such services only
>>>blacked specific known open-relays.
>>But as you would know from 5 minutes persual of the SPEWS FAQ, they are
>>not an open relay listing service at all.
>I can imagine that unfortunatly a lot of people that implement blocking
>based on the spews list do not read the FAQ,

Then they're idiots. If someone does "rm -rf /var/spool/mail", don't
blame the authors of "rm" for the loss of mail.

>>I suppose I should not be surprised that most of the people posting to
>>this thread have not actually bothered to discover the basic facts
>>involved.
>Oh, they haven't have they?  To quote you in a recent email:
>"Momentarily ignoring the fact that your "basic truth" is a statistic
>you made up, perhaps you should blame the sysadmins?"
>David, you are a hypocritical troll, IMHO of course.

Huh? I'm a hypocritical troll because someone pulled a figure of "99%"
out of their arse? I don't follow you.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?


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