[Gllug] spews blacklist

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Doug Winter 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.

A well maintained blacklist is a very useful tool in the battle to stop 
spam. To take spews as anything other than an example of another form of 
abuse is absurd.

Responsibly maintained blacklists help put pressure onto ISPs to remove 
spammers from their networks and this does work.

Jason Clifford
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