Interesting thing currently happening between the anti-spam site SPEWS.org and Something Awful.
We here at Something Awful just recently found out how those motherfuckers at SPEWS.ORG work. They have blocked roughly half of a class B-subnet in an all inclusive effort to halt spam originating from Cogent. This includes Something Awful's mail server and probably a number of other innocent mail servers. This means that mail originating from our subnet is going to bounce to a large number of people we try to reply to. No big deal you know, unless your motherfucking job depends on being able to interact with advertisers via e-mail.
I had sent a note to a friend of mine recently, and I got a SPEWS note back in return. I took a look at their site, and the main thing I took away from what they have up is "what a bunch of cocksuckers."
It really kills me that these pieces of shit have absolutely no problem throwing out not just the baby with the bathwater, but the entire fucking wing of the children's hospital. It's especially frustrating, as idiots who subscribe to Spews's lists have no fucking idea that they could end all this if they didn't give these children any power.
I sincerely hope that SA makes a difference in all of this, somehow. The story'll get submitted to Slashdot at one point and things will really blow up. Already a bunch of fucks aligned with Spews have attempted a denial of service attack on SA (way to prove you've got the moral high ground, fuckheads!). The thing that gets me is that it could be any one of our sites arbitrarily thrown onto a blacklist at some point in the future. It's obvious that these monkeys can't comport themselves with even a modicum of responsibility -- they seriously need to go.
And I gotta say: the responses from some of these no-life wonderlics regarding SA's blacklisting have just been hilarious. Way to shatter all those stereotypes about the typical Usenet admin dipshit, fellas! Right on!
Interesting thing currently happening between the anti-spam site SPEWS.org and Something Awful.
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We here at Something Awful just recently found out how those motherfuckers at SPEWS.ORG work. They have blocked roughly half of a class B-subnet in an all inclusive effort to halt spam originating from Cogent. This includes Something Awful's mail server and probably a number of other innocent mail servers. This means that mail originating from our subnet is going to bounce to a large number of people we try to reply to. No big deal you know, unless your motherfucking job depends on being able to interact with advertisers via e-mail. [/quote]
I had sent a note to a friend of mine recently, and I got a SPEWS note back in return. I took a look at their site, and the main thing I took away from what they have up is "what a bunch of cocksuckers."
It really kills me that these pieces of shit have absolutely no problem throwing out not just the baby with the bathwater, but the entire fucking wing of the children's hospital. It's especially frustrating, as idiots who subscribe to Spews's lists have no fucking idea that they could end all this if they didn't give these children any power.
I sincerely hope that SA makes a difference in all of this, somehow. The story'll get submitted to Slashdot at one point and things will really blow up. Already a bunch of fucks aligned with Spews have attempted a denial of service attack on SA (way to prove you've got the moral high ground, fuckheads!). The thing that gets me is that it could be any one of our sites arbitrarily thrown onto a blacklist at some point in the future. It's obvious that these monkeys can't comport themselves with even a modicum of responsibility -- they seriously need to go.
And I gotta say: the responses from some of these no-life wonderlics regarding SA's blacklisting have just been hilarious. Way to shatter all those stereotypes about the typical Usenet admin dipshit, fellas! Right on!