RE: OT: Why Friends Don't Let Friends use RBLs
- From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:08:03 -0500
Hi Ray,
I think you just about summed it up better than I ever could! :-)
Thanks!
Tom
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Dzek [mailto:rdzek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 3:12 PM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] RE: OT: Why Friends Don't Let Friends use RBLs
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So in a nutshell, you have a lot of really stupid people, all doing
various
degrees of really stupid things.
1. You have the spammers.
2. You have the lawmakers.
3. You have the entire industry that has been built on "protecting" us
from
the 1st group.
They ALL have their hand in your wallet. The spammers are of course
fishing
amongst you for the one in 8,000,000 that clicks on their ad. The
lawmakers
want you to give them money so they can pen some totally gutless piece
of
legislation to show their constituency how tough they are on spam. You
have
an entire industry that tells the lawmakers how to draft the laws to it
makes it look to stupid consumers that they are doing something about
the
problem, but actually does nothing so the anti-spam companies can
continue
their lovely new found way to extract several hundred million dollars a
year
from companies and home users who just want to read the email from their
co-workers, or family members without having to wade through 37 ways to
increase various appendages.
Kind of like a mini circle of life thing. Only it is really a carousel
from
hell and we are the ones stuck on the ride and can't get off. And we
have
to pay for the privilege again every time it goes around.
Ranting about RBL's is ridiculous. Ranting about who follows what RFC
is
ridiculous. The RFC's are completely antiquated for dealing with spam
and
are written with the thought that everybody playing in the same sandbox
plays nice. This is jungle-rules, and everybody in charge is a moron.
You
do what you have to do to protect your assets as best you can. If it
inconveniences a few people, tough. War is like that.
Don't forget your spam rations on the way out. That is all...
Ray Dzek
87th light anti-spam brigade
Network Operations Supervisor 1st class
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