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Re: SPEWS?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Thu Jun 20 16:27:38 2002

Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:21:05 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20020620152844.T75440-100000@doos.cluecentral.net>; from sabri@cluecentral.net on Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:31:05PM +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On 06/20/02, Sabri Berisha <sabri@cluecentral.net> wrote: 

> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> 
> > I've had a little run-in with SPEWS, and the crowd on
> > news:news.admin.net-abuse.email.
> >
> > I'm curious; do folks take these guys serious?
> 
> Any non-contactable blacklist should not be taken serious. Posting to a
> public forum (ie usenet) to contact the maintainer of such is list is not
> acceptable and I for one can not understand why any responsible site
> administrator would use such a list.

	Because they're desperate.  Everyone is, these days.

	Death of the net predicted, etc etc.

-- 
J.D. Falk                                         "It's all vegan, except for
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org>                                the goat squeezings!"
                                                                   -- rachel

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