Osirusoft Blacklists The World 947
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."
Re:Well, fine, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well, fine, but... (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe it wasn't a DDoS attack (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, that's great (Score:5, Funny)
This shutdown seems to be in response to a several-week-long DDoS attack on Osirusoft,
They guy is dealing with a huge DDoS attack and we link his page from the front page of /. ??
I guess we can't make things any worse, but come on. Give the guy a break.
Re:Sweet, Sweet Justice. (Score:5, Funny)
Then they blacklisted the open relays...
Then they blacklisted the ISP dialup subnets....
Then they blacklisted everyone...
Re:trusted signing of mail servers (Score:5, Funny)
Oh that's just fscking great. And to register a trusted mail server will no doubt cost $1000/year for a Verisign "trusted" certificate. Screw that. If you can do the same thing but make it open source then I'd say go for it, but if I have to be ass-raped by Verisign for another minute I'll give up on the entire god damn Internet.
Re:blacklists -- bah! (Score:2, Funny)
I spot a fatal error in your reasoning, I contend that it's not actually possible for anyone to be more BOFHish than Joe Jared.
Re:Blacklists and reality (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Garbage (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Blacklists and reality (Score:5, Funny)
At Last! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well, fine, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Spammers: BRING IT ON (Score:1, Funny)
Re:sad news, but there are alternatives (Score:2, Funny)
There is a solution to spam. (Score:1, Funny)
Sorry about that, just venting. Seriously, something must be done, or else email as we know it will become completely unusable in the next year or two.
penicillin (Score:3, Funny)
My private key leaked for a bit, but a shot at the clinic helped that.
I mean, it wasn't SPEWing or anything, just a little leak...
Re:Blacklists and reality (Score:2, Funny)
attachment: wicked_scr.scr
The simplest solution... (Score:1, Funny)
You too can be spam-free for only $4.99! Just send an email to spam.me@spot.the.dog with your credit card details to find out!
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Aw, too bad (Score:3, Funny)
What's that? It's a huge PITA that would be highly disruptive to your business? Well maybe the DDOSers have a newgroup you can post to and be either a) ignored or b) ridiculed.
Looks like SPEWS is 'collateral damage' in the spam war. Yeah, sucks doesn't it.