Re: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-19 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, Note: This is not precisely on-topic for SATalk though it hints that SPEWS is not the worst you may have to deal with. On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:49:06 -0700 Abigail Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > YD> There are only 2 > YD> places in the whole world that get denied at the MTA here and SB

Re: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-18 Thread Thomas Cameron
- Original Message - From: "Abigail Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yorkshire Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "spamassassin list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:49 PM Subject: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-17 Thread Abigail Marshall
YD> There are only 2 YD> places in the whole world that get denied at the MTA here and SBC is the YD> only one of them that got there by spam. My feelings for them cannot be YD> expressed without spilling blood. I'm going to shut up now before I YD> start sounding like a raging nanae-ite :) Why d

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Kai MacTane
At 8/15/03 08:59 PM , Chuck Mize wrote: How exactly is a host that knowingly and willingly provides services to a spammer innocent? It seems to me that vitriol should be directed towards those providers that rake in the spammer money each month and use their "innocent bystander" clients as shie

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Chuck Mize
John Rudd wrote: On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 23:01 US/Pacific, Alan Hodgson wrote: you should use SPEWS if you choose to block ISP's who are spam supporters Which should be read as: You should use SPEWS if you want to participate in the bullying of "the little guy". SPEWS sucks. If there's

Re:[OT] [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Satya
On Aug 15, 2003 at 21:18, Rick Macdougall wrote: >Actually changing ISP's is a lot easier than getting a new citizenship >in a new country. While I would never use SPEWS to block email, I am Assuming I have a choice of ISPs in my area, and assuming you'll pay the setup cost. -- Satya. http://s

Re:[OT] [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Rick Macdougall
John Rudd wrote: And you pay taxes to a country that is participating in international organizations whose agenda ends up degrading foreign cultures and bombing foreign houses. Even if you're against it, you're supporting it. So, does that make it ok for agents of those foreign groups to b

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Alan Leghart
--On Friday, August 15, 2003 7:03 AM -0700 John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You should use SPEWS if you want to participate in the bullying of "the little guy". SPEWS sucks. If there's a such thing as "non-violent terrorism*", SPEWS is its poster child. (* and I'm not one who jumps on that c

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread John Rudd
On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 23:01 US/Pacific, Alan Hodgson wrote: you should use SPEWS if you choose to block ISP's who are spam supporters Which should be read as: You should use SPEWS if you want to participate in the bullying of "the little guy". SPEWS sucks. If there's a such thing as

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread John Rudd
On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 00:44 US/Pacific, Yorkshire Dave wrote: I totally disagree with the innocent victim bit. Sure they're innocent until they find out, but as soon as they become aware they're on a spamhaven ISP their next payment makes them a willing spam supporter not an innocent victi

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:16, John Rudd wrote: > On Friday, Aug 15, 2003, at 00:44 US/Pacific, Yorkshire Dave wrote: > > I totally disagree with the innocent victim bit. Sure they're innocent > > until they find out, but as soon as they become aware they're on a > > spamhaven ISP their next payment

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
- Original Message - From: "Simon Byrnand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 3:24 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer > > - Original Me

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Simon Byrnand
> - Original Message - > From: "Alan Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:39 PM > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer > > >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:02:45PM -0

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 05:52, Thomas Cameron wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Alan Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:39 PM > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer > &

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:52:23PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > Um, which description was that? I don't see *any* description of SPEWS > other than my *opinion* that it sucks. You actually help make my case - you > are a SPEWS supporter and you call me a liar (and it's "disingenuous") for > no

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 05:08, Peter Kiem wrote: > Hi, > > >The upshot of this experience proved to me, once and for all, that > > blackhole lists are a *bad* (*BAD*) idea unless you, yourself, happen > > to be administering the list. The whole thing revolves around trust, > > and a single fals

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
- Original Message - From: "Alan Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:02:45PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > Goo

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi, >The upshot of this experience proved to me, once and for all, that > blackhole lists are a *bad* (*BAD*) idea unless you, yourself, happen > to be administering the list. The whole thing revolves around trust, > and a single false-positive in a supposedly-trusted list nullifies > that tr

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-14 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 02:16, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 01:44 PM 8/14/2003 -0700, Doug Roberts wrote: > >Hi all - > > > >We just set up shop at a co-lo, started firing off mails to customers that > >requested to download our product (a spamassassin-based filter, > >ironically) and discovered that w

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-14 Thread Carl R. Friend
Doug Roberts pleads: > We just set up shop at a co-lo, started firing off mails to customers that > requested to download our product (a spamassassin-based filter, ironically) > and discovered that we are the proud owners of part of a class C that has > been blocked because the previous owne

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:44 PM 8/14/2003 -0700, Doug Roberts wrote: Hi all - We just set up shop at a co-lo, started firing off mails to customers that requested to download our product (a spamassassin-based filter, ironically) and discovered that we are the proud owners of part of a class C that has been blocked

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:02:45PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > Good luck. SPEWS completely sucks - I have a client in a very similar > situation, and my requests on news.admin.net-abuse.email only got me called > all kinds of nasty names. The gist of the responses I got was "If you do > busine

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-14 Thread Justin Mason
Thomas Cameron writes: > Good luck. SPEWS completely sucks - I have a client in a very similar > situation, and my requests on news.admin.net-abuse.email only got me called > all kinds of nasty names. The gist of the responses I got was "If you do > business with an ISP that allows spam, allowed

Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas Cameron
meron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 - Original Message - From: "Doug Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 3:44 PM Subject: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer > Hi all - >

[SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-14 Thread Doug Roberts
Hi all - We just set up shop at a co-lo, started firing off mails to customers that requested to download our product (a spamassassin-based filter, ironically) and discovered that we are the proud owners of part of a class C that has been blocked because the previous owners were spammers. We we