On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:54 , Brielle Bruns wrote: > On 4/4/12 3:36 PM, Landon Stewart wrote: > >>>> It's best to not complain about it and just accept it as a fact of life >>>> your IPs are listed on SORBS and move on. It's not the end of the world. >>>> >> It turns into a customer service issue for most service providers. > > Eh, guess they'll just have to absorb the cost of that, like its expected > that the recipients of spam have to absorb the cost of ISPs not disconnecting > infected/spamming customers... > > And like how I have to absorb the costs of spending my time during the day > answering removal requests from people who lie to me constantly and hope that > I don't notice their little games. > > Ever wonder why it takes time for DNSbl's to process removals, sometimes very > long periods? Well, someone's gotta pay for that time the removal person > does it (and I have yet to see a dime of compensation for the time I spend).
No, they don't. Many DNSBLs use self-service tools. Someone has to write the tool, but the rest is automated. Total cost is power & space, which is frequently donated (I have personally donated some myself to DNSBLs I thought were well run). Besides, anyone who knowingly causes harm to a third party and claims "it is a cost of doing business" or "mostly people like it" or "our $FOO is targeted and almost always correct, you must be an outlier and that's why it costs you" sound -exactly- like spammers to me. Spammer who are up-front about it I can deal with. Don't agree with or even like them, but at least we understand each other. Hypocrisy is a different story. -- TTFN, patrick
