Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Can any list member explain what is going on and how to remedy the > situation ? > > Interestingly, until about 2 weeks ago I had no problems posting to the > IDCC. Boy, do I ever know what is going on. If there is such a thing as justifiable homicide, I would like to suggest that it be used first on the people at RELAYS.ORDB.ORG and others like them. Nobody likes to get spam. Most of us just cuss and delete it. Some people who are control freak technocrats get so outraged that they try to do something about it. There are about a dozen vigilante organizations out there who make lists of computers that they claim are sending spam and then try to trick well-meaning ISPs into using their lists. It is almost all utter bullshit. About 99% of the computers that make these blacklists are not sending spam at all. In your case, they've blacklisted CUNY. The ISP that hosts the IDCC has been tricked into subscribing to an anti-spam service, and that anti-spam service is asserting that CUNY's computers are devoted to spam. I would like to see a US Air Force bombing run made on everybody who runs anti-spam services. I hate spam, but I hate anti-spam vigilantes a lot more. From time to time a LUG subscriber's ISP will start doing something like this. When that happens, I instantly boot them from the LUG, and explain that if they want to be on the LUG, they must either convince their ISP to stop using these pseudo-spam-prevention services or they must find a new ISP. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html