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Originally Posted by BoNgHiTtA
You know what I get sick of, I host at a local COLO who is pretty cheap. Every so often a spammer or a computer gets hacked on there network (they have like 6 datacenters), and I get warnings that I am being blocked cause Spamhaus blocks the whole fucking range. Its horseshit and a shitty way to define a spammer.
Fuck you spamhaus, you suck and I hope they collect and wipe you off the face of the earth. I don't spam, and don't like being blocked cause someone else on the HUGE fucking network is.
You suck
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I really don't expect much support for my anti-spam position on a spam support board full of advertisers who are spammers, provide hosting services for spammers, sponsors who use spammers to promote their programs, or webmasters who themselves are spammers.
In the example Bongboy points out above, a machine gets hacked by some douchbag, and he turns it into a his personal spam machine essentially stealing badwidth and resources. At this point, a single ip is blocked as the complaints come in. A warning is registered with the owners of the ip space, and if the web host is doing his job, that machine is shut down and spammer is tossed. It can end there. However, if the spam persists, and the host does nothing after receiving more warnings, the ip range widens, and then the "innocents" get sucked in. Many unethical hosts, of which their are quite a few on this board have no problem mixing their pet spammers with their lower paying legit customers, and guess what?........ SPAMHAUS are the bitches for listing a legitimate source of abuse , and the spammers and their complicit host get a free pass.
If ISPs and individuals found no value in Spamhaus, they would be gone tomorrow. They CHOOSE to use RBL's because it reasonably effective tool to block the billions of junk emails the bottom feeders of this industry, and other scumbags constantly try to force upon us.