Apache is using a DoS tool as a blacklist?

Send email from your ISP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and watch the
results. They say one email to that address is sufficient to cause
the entire relay path to be marked as spammers.

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>     host mail.apache.org [209.237.227.199]: 550
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> And Apache.org uses a filter that is a DoS attack waiting to happen.
>
> Apache.org is using the dsbl.org blacklist that is basically a DoS
> attack on ISPs waiting to happen. All anybody needs to do is forward
> one message from anyplace through the Earthlink mailers to one published
> destination address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] It then adds every server
> that was involved in the path to their list. All ANYBODY needs to do to
> deny service to Earthlink customers, for example, is relay one message
> through Earthlink's servers.
>
> The idiot, the fuggheaded idiot, at Apache who considered using this
> list for even one femto-second should have his brains beaten in with
> a cluestick.
>
> It appears somebody played this prank earlier today.
>
> {O.O}
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeff Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <users@spamassassin.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, 2004 September, 20 23:07
> Subject: Re: SpamAssissian
>
>
> > On Monday, September 20, 2004, 10:59:10 PM, Mehdi Mehdi wrote:
> > > Do spamassissian has database to keep spam soruce servers?
> > > Thanks
> >
> > For keeping track of spam source servers, SpamAssassin uses
> > external RBLs like xbl.spamhaus.org, list.dsbl.org, etc.
> >
> > Jeff C.
> > -- 
> > Jeff Chan
> > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.surbl.org/


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