RE: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks?

[David Schwartz <davids () webmaster com>]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:45:29 -0500, Scott Silzer wrote:

> I could understand if an ISP was allowing spam from a portion of
> there network.  But in this case the only thing that the ISP did is
> host a website, the SPAM was sent from from a third party's network.
> The ISP did terminate the customer but in the meantime the entire
> NSP's network has been blacklisted, for a rouge webhosting account
> does sound a bit harsh.

        A spam blocking service that worked that way would be useless. Anyone could
get any site they didn't like blacklisted simply by spamvertising it. Anyone
who uses a spam blocking list that works that way is DoSing themselves.

        DS