Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 06 Sep 2002 17:20:13 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Disabled kernel.org accounts |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > > The SPEWS listing looks correct ... >
Except, at the very least, the netmask. I have also been unable to verify a DNS server operating at the claimed address when I have poked at it.
> >>Please note that The Kernel Dot Org Organization do not endorse or >>support spam in any shape, way or form, > > ... but you would, if you were a paying customer of the ISP. >
We are living on donated bandwidth, which is hard enough to get. I have complained to our sponsor in the hope that they will complain to the ISP, but you can imagine how well that goes over. I can't do much.
> >>and certainly do not recognize any sort of "right to spam." > > Being a blacklist operator myself (DSBL http://dsbl.org) I > may surprise you that I _do_ think spammers have a right of > free speech and a right to spam. It's just that I also think > nobody has an obligation to listen, everybody can accept or > deny any email they want for any random reason .. after all, > if it's your mail server, you get to decide what to do with > your private property. >
I would agree with you, *if* I could put "[NO UCE]" in my SMTP server banner and have the spammers disconnect. As it is, they are wasting my time, resources, and again, mostly to commit crimes (fraud, theft of service, ...)
-hpa
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