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

[Francisco Sánchez <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>    And I have the RIGHT to do so, since I am not required by any law,
> contract, or other legal impliment to connect to ANY specific server, and
may
> freely choose to whom I wish to connect. Speaking SMTP to my server is a
> privilage, not a right; spam me, or run an open relay who spams me, and I
> stop talking to your server, possibly your netblock, and occasionally your
> COUNTRY. And you have no legal claim whatsoever to attack that.
>

Sure, you can block even whole continents, but believe me, if I were a
serious business looking for webhosting, I would never choose a company who
blocks connections to my page from potential customers/visitors.

Spam is nasty (not more nasty than the snail mail spam we receive every
day), but blocking whole ranges of IP addresses, or even a single IP
address, without a serious investigation, seems to me as outrageous as the
people claiming to bomb some country after 11th Sept. when we did't even
know where the attack came from...

Sorry, but I am against fanatism, and some ways of fighting spam seem just
that.  Most ORBZ like services act like fanatics.  For those people who want
to stop talking to half the world, I suggest they build an intranet and play
with their own computers communicating each other.

Regards,

Francisco Sánchez