[Gllug] Re: www.spews.org - spamming blacklist

[David Damerell]

On , 2 Jun 2003, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
>Yep, that's spews. Nice reasoned, rational response. Find a spammer,
>then proceed to completely screw over a whole load of totally innocent
>people just because they happen to have the same ISP.

This response is both reasoned (perhaps not reasonable) and rational.
This _really_ motivates the ISP to do something about the spammer.

Call the cure worse than the disease, fine. Say that SPEWS in
particular are lousy at identifying the right ranges to block, often
block on false positives, and are unresponsive to problems being
fixed, also fine.

But there's no point saying there's not a clearly thought out
rationale behind this approach; in general, it weakens any valid
arguments you may have if you present invalid ones at the same time.

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


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