On Wednesday 27 August 2003 13:19, Bopolissimus Platypus wrote: > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 12:53, Gideon N. Guillen wrote: > > Well not really, but they blacklisted the world, so it's useless now. > > it seems a cracker got in and blacklisted the world :). probably > some spammer who wanted to take down one more anti-spammer > resource :).
sorry for spreading the misinformation. it seems he's been DDoSed, he got pissed off, gave up and blacklisted the world. i was too quick on that cracker theory (read it somewhere, probably slashdot, where the story is developing and getting clearer). NSXDavid writes "Earlier today our site mysteriously ended up on Joe Jared's Osirusoft SPAM blacklist which is used by lots of antispam software (like SpamAssassin and sendmail). Since he is currently under a serious DDoS attack, there was no way to appeal this decision. We contacted Mr. Jared by phone who informed us that 'everyone needs to stop using Osirusoft and that he's going to be shutting the service down.' Then he says he's going to blacklist 'the world' (aka, ban *.*.*.*) to get his point across. Later on this evening, he apparently went ahead and did just that. Succumbing to lawsuits and DDoS, a once great blacklist is dead. SpamAssassin is removing it from their config in the next release (rc3) and email admins around the globe are reconfiguring their mail servers." http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0214238&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=126 tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
