RE: [cobalt-users] OT ** ORBZ **

[baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Dan Kriwitsky wrote:

> take no action on their spamming customers. Unfortunately there's
> collateral damage to the non-spamming customers, but if you live next
> door to a crack house, don't expect Pizza Hut to deliver, or the rest of
> the Internet to want to accept traffic from your neighborhood.

Let's see, restraint of trade, maybe even a RICO case, since SPEWS
effectively punishes anyone using an IP in a block...even if they don't
spam.

Read the newsgroup and see how proud the SPEWS folks are of their
methodology.

So, it's kinda like saying that because Mr. Jones is a forgerer, we can
arrest all his children and/or tenants, just so we can get Mr. Jones to
stop writing bad paper.


>SPEWS is
> a last resort to force hosts to behave or to end up with an Intranet.

And in no way does that excuse the damage that SPEWS causes to
non-spammers.

Thom

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