Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the prompt reply Brian. I did check the RELAYS.ORDB.ORG database (by entering in it my e-mail server's IP address) before posting my message, yet it did not show up in their database. Now I am doubly puzzled. If it will help, I can e-mail you the IP address from which I post, although I expect you can get that easily enough. Regards, Akhil Brian Reid wrote: > > > 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