On Tuesday, June 29, 2004, 3:19:50 PM, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> Especially since they've gone *way* beyond blocking mail servers - they
> will drop an entire /24 into their list because an IP in that block was 
> hosting *images* that were used in a spam. Not even intentionally. (Not 
> one single piece of mail came out of this block)  That's just 
> ridiculous, IMHO. There's "collateral damage" and then there's just 
> plain silliness.

Agreed.  That's absurd.

So what happens if an abuser includes an image from the Spews
web site in a spam?  Would SPEWS include increasingly larger
blocks of their own network until the abuser stops?  ;-)  If they
were consistent in their application of principles they would....

Jeff C.
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