Well 12 months for each spam email seems a little excessive to me and I still view it as extortion. Pay a fee or stay on the list. Thank god they didn't get a 100 of them.
At 12:33 AM 10/9/2009 +0300, Alex Frunza wrote: >Hi, > >I don't use SORBS and don't agree with the fee thing, but it's not >extortion - they stick to their criteria, and your system did send spam. >Each list is allowed to have whatever policy they want to...and the ones >using it obviously agree with their policy (or didn't check it properly, >which is their fault!) > >Thanks for the story anyway! > > > >On 10/9/2009 12:11 AM, Phil Cook wrote: >> I'd like to relate to you all a little story of my experience with SORBS. A >> little while back we had a spammer find a user account with a weak password >> and used it to auth and send spam using it. Of course this happened at night >> while I wasn't here unfortunately. Upon discovery the next morning the >> problem was corrected immediately but not soon enough for us to avoid having >> been blacklisted by 4 different lists. So I started contacting the lists to >> get our ip removed and all was going just fine until I had to deal with >> SORBS. We are still blacklisted by them and probably will be for a year >> according to the email I received. Because there is no way I am going to pay >> what to me is nothing more than an outright extortion fee wanted by them. >> After googling them and doing some reading I learned that I am far from the >> only person to experience this. Seems that they are quite hated by a lot of >> people. We have legit business orders that are not going thru to Mexico and >> I am having a he ck >> of a time contacting the it person or isp down there to get this >> straightened out because they are using SORBS. It has become a nightmare >> that I really didn't need to deal with right now. Therefore with that said, >> as a long time ASSP user, I would highly recommend that SORBS be taken out >> of the default config file for ASSP, and I ask that mail admins stop using >> them at all. Stopping spam is one thing, this bullshit is another, and I >> have had it with them. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA >> is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your >> developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay >> ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference >> _______________________________________________ >> Assp-user mailing list >> Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user >> >> >> > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA >is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your >developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay >ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! >http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference >_______________________________________________ >Assp-user mailing list >Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
