Osirusoft Blacklists The World

[sobak]

Don't know if this has been passed on here or not, I looked back to Monday but didn't see anything so I'm posting going to post it.

Osirusoft Blacklists The World

Posted by timothy on Tuesday August 26, @11:15PM
from the wildcard-matches-for-evil dept.
ariehk writes "As of today, Osirusoft, distributer of the SPEWS and open relay blocklists, among others, is no longer operational. Servers using these lists (including the FTC) are currently rejecting ALL email. This shutdown seems to be in response to a several-week-long DDoS attack on Osirusoft, SPEWS and others, resulting in both sites being down. This has caused much discussion on n.a.n-a.e,
including the suggestion that the attack is somehow related to the SoBig worm. The spammers must be hurting if they can devote these kinds of resources to attacking blocklists."

Read on below a related submission.

NSXDavid writes "Earlier today our site mysteriously ended up on Joe Jared's Osirusoft SPAM blacklist which is used by lots of antispam software (like SpamAssassin and sendmail). Since he is currently under a serious DDoS attack, there was no way to appeal this decision. We contacted Mr. Jared by phone who informed us that 'everyone needs to stop using Osirusoft and that he's going to be shutting the service down.' Then he says he's going to blacklist 'the world' (aka, ban *.*.*.*) to get his point across. Later on this evening, he apparently went ahead and did just that.
Succumbing to lawsuits and DDoS, a once great blacklist is dead. SpamAssassin is removing it from their config in the next release (rc3) and email admins around the globe are reconfiguring their mail servers."


david e
*end users are just like computers, some you can work with...others just need a simple reBOOTing to fix their problems.*

 

[Pennanti]

Blacklists are the worst thing to ever happen to e-mail. To many innocents are getting blacklisted and have to spend massive amounts of time and effort to get their names cleared. There are many better ways to combat spam, they may take a bit more effort but at least they will not impact people who are not spammers.
Just my opinion.

 

[sobak]

The e-mail traffic for my business is just suited for a Blacklist, it has little or no impact and keeps my users happy, that's my ultimate goal, I know there are some people that will disagree but it's like the old battle between Microsoft and Novell, or Linux is better than Mac. You have to judge what the specific needs are and then provide a solution that best fits that need.

just my opinion.




david e
*end users are just like computers, some you can work with...others just need a simple reBOOTing to fix their problems.*

 

[jpm121]

I'm with you, sobak.

My company pays for the servers, bandwidth, PCs, and employee time spent dealing with spam. We are free to prevent anyone and everyone from abusing those resources from the outside, using blacklists or any other sort of technology.

No one has a right to send us e-mail unless WE say so. THAT is how it should be.

Pennanti, wouldn't you agree that maybe SPAM is the worst thing to happen to e-mail, or at least a little worse than blacklists?