> > Osirusoft is not a blocklist, it is just an aggregate of other lists. Joe > Jared is not listing you, he's simply distributing lists which do. If you > stop the spamming for which you are personally responsible, the blocklist > maintaners will remove your IP addresses from their lists.
Osirusoft is NOT JUST an aggregate of other lists. Simple... just type in mailserv.iadvantage.net, and find another RBL listed.... and then tell me that Osirusoft's list is using that list. You won't find it. Why? Because Osirusoft's Joe Jared has an internal list, and THAT is where iAdvantage is listed. Why did he do this? Because the other lists, including SPEWS, no longer list iAdvantage. WHY? Because the complaints against iAdvantage are far trivial compared to the number of complaints against Sprint and other USA carriers. > A quick google search > > > http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=iadvantage&as_ugroup=news.admin.net-a bu > se.email > > reveals 174 threads concerning iAdvantage spam. Yeah... and I probably wrote a bunch of them personally. Note... not 174 THREADS... thats 174 postings. Get it right. For a large hosting corporation, I reckon that is actually a very small number. For comparison I'd also draw your attention to: http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=rackspace&as_ugroup=news.admin.net-ab use.email reveals 2620 messages concerning rackspace spam AND http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=telstra&as_ugroup=news.admin.net-abus e.email reveals 4260 messages concerning Telstra spam. What do you think now? > Further, the SPEWS record for iAdvantage > > http://spews.org/html/S475.html > > says, and I quote, "Zentek (Jason Lim) is a spam-house, Iadvantage > tolerates spammers. Thats right... because I'm one of the first people to complain about this and probably the most vocal (and I'll continue to do so until others see the truth). Maybe the other people in HK don't have good enough English to argue the support themselves, but I do, and they can't just go around bashing HK all they want without someone putting up a fight. BTW, I'd be very happy if iAdvantage was owned by me... it being a multimillion dollar, publically listed corporation and all. I'm actually kind of flattered that SPEWS thinks I'm running the show there. We're one of their customers using their bandwidth... they are one of the highest performance bandwidth facilities in HK which is why we use them for our bandwidth. iAdvantage provides bandwidth to many hundreds of large corporations in HK... overall i'd say many thousands of websites are hosted there (mostly Chinese probably). So with one fell swoop all these sites can no longer send email properly. Can we say collateral damage to the max? > > >Might I suggest 3 effective alternatives (there are many others, but these > >ones I've tested and are good): > > Might I suggest refusing all email from Zebtek and iAdvantage until such > time as they quit providing spam support. Oh please... do yourself a favour and don't show yourself to be a fool... http://groups.google.com/groups?q=zentek+group:news.admin.net-abuse.email& hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&sa=G&scoring=d See for yourself when the last Zentek spam issue was... 13 months ago? Maybe more? Anyway... I suggest you also block Sprint and Rackspace, since they get far more complaints than iAdvantage. Go on... do it. Don't dare to?