[clug] Mysterious delivery problems

Tim Potter tpot at samba.org
Wed May 21 10:45:14 EST 2003


On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:31:49AM +1000, Alex Satrapa wrote:

> >Admittedly there are a lot of spammers on nanae trying it on in order to
> >get their blocks removed which makes for amusing reading, but their
> >policy of being assholes to anyone who has a complaint kind of loses its
> >charm after a while.
> 
> Not assholes - just lazy.

They're definitely assholes.

> They block "proximate netblocks" because in their experience, getting 
> other people to do their work for them (hassle ISPs about cleaning up 
> the spammers) is much easier than listing only the netblocks that are 
> causing the problem.

Well I think that sucks.  On the plus side it cut down our bandwidth
costs as lots of people were dropped from the mailing lists.


Tim.



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