Check out this article on SFGate.com. It's an editorial by David Lazarus that talks about a local arts group being listed on Joe Jared's block list, for running an open relay. Here's a couple of snippets from it: A little digging revealed that OsiruSoft, based in …
On July 31, 2001, Nick Renton , of Melbourne, Australia, wrote an interesting commentary on why a new anti-spam blacklist, called ORBL, was a bad thing. Oddly enough, the only reason I knew about this, is because Mr. Renton actually chose to advertise this fact to me -- by e…
As you probably know, I used to be associated with the Mail Abuse Prevention System, the well-known anti-spam blacklist group. Though I continue to fully support a network owner's right to block email from whomever they please, I no longer have faith in MAPS' goals or…
I used to work for the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS). They maintain, among other things, the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL). The MAPS RBL is a list of Internet sites. On this list are sites that have sent spam, assisted people who sent spam, benefited from spam, or due t…