On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:54 , Brielle Bruns wrote:
On 4/4/12 3:36 PM, Landon Stewart wrote:
It's best to not complain about it and just accept it as a fact of life your IPs are listed on SORBS and move on. It's not the end of the world.
It turns into a customer service issue for most service providers.
Eh, guess they'll just have to absorb the cost of that, like its expected that the recipients of spam have to absorb the cost of ISPs not disconnecting infected/spamming customers...
And like how I have to absorb the costs of spending my time during the day answering removal requests from people who lie to me constantly and hope that I don't notice their little games.
Ever wonder why it takes time for DNSbl's to process removals, sometimes very long periods? Well, someone's gotta pay for that time the removal person does it (and I have yet to see a dime of compensation for the time I spend).
No, they don't. Many DNSBLs use self-service tools. Someone has to write the tool, but the rest is automated. Total cost is power & space, which is frequently donated (I have personally donated some myself to DNSBLs I thought were well run). Besides, anyone who knowingly causes harm to a third party and claims "it is a cost of doing business" or "mostly people like it" or "our $FOO is targeted and almost always correct, you must be an outlier and that's why it costs you" sound -exactly- like spammers to me. Spammer who are up-front about it I can deal with. Don't agree with or even like them, but at least we understand each other. Hypocrisy is a different story. -- TTFN, patrick