Re: Re[4]: [vps-mail] Large Mailing List

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:13:11 -0700, Abigail Marshall <abigail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Well maybe it came back to life??? It was down for at least
> 6 months, but I see that you are right, it's back up.  Sorry
> for the misinformation.

The website did come under DDoS attack for quite a while last year, as did
those of most spam-fighting organisations like SpamCop, SORBS,
osirusoft.com, monkeys.com and Spamhaus. However, SPEWS DNSBLs never
faltered (idjit spammers attacking the wrong area of the 'net, rule #3 in
action).

OTOH, as Sikaspam pointed out, Joe Jared (osirusoft.com DNSBLs) *did* get
knocked off the 'net and never made it back again. The easynet.nl DNSBLs
and RFG's monkeys.com DNSBLs are also gone now, although they went out far
more quietly by emptying the zones before going off the air rather than
listing the entire IPv4 space.

Doing what Joe did certainly created a fuss, which is understandable,
although it did have its merits. It caught the eyes of sysadmins worth their
salt *very* quickly. It took me only a few minutes to see that everything
was being rejected and to take relays.osirusoft.com out of the list of
DNSBLs used, whereas there are still people using the easynet.nl lists and
not realising that they're not doing anything, and who will not understand
why delivery of mail is taking so long later when the lists are taken off
the air and no longer resolve.

SPEWS is a controversial pair of DNSBLs. You either love them or hate them.
I love them and believe that what they're doing is right: hurting ISPs who
support spammers.

Anyway, this is pretty much drifting off-topic for the VPS mailing list.
Feel free to contact me off-list if you want to continue the discussion.

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