[Gllug] spews blacklist

[Murray]

it does add another interesting dimension to the selection criteria for an
ISP/hosting/colo company.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30881.html
Critics set up anti-SPEWS Web site

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Spews+group:news.admin.net-abuse.email&hl=
en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=apou6a%24nf6%241%40slb0.atl.mindspring.net&rnu
m=2
... As a result, we have found that the list frequently
contains many IP addresses from which spam has NEVER originated. SPEWS
supporters justify this as "collateral damage," and say that it forces ISPs
to stop spammers by turning their legitimate customers against them...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Doug Winter
> Sent: 02 June 2003 11:55
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] spews blacklist
>
>
> On Mon 02 Jun t.clarke wrote:
> > It would seem that the spews blacklist is of very litle value if they
> > are going to arbitrarily block whole networks like this !!!
>
> That's blacklists for you.  The whole idea is pretty flawed imho.
>
> doug.
>
> --
> As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action
> arise, human science is at a loss. -- Noam Chomsky
>
>



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