Infinite Monkeys and other BLs

[Matt Kaminer]

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Mariano Absatz said:
> Er... why, when there's an open public searchable web archive of the list
> you're only searching your partial and relatively new (only 4 months old)
> list archive?
>
> You seem to be not only a mediocre sysadmin, but also a poor searcher...
> a quick search in http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S1=mailscanner
> quickly found in http://tinyurl.com/36b5d a copy of the message stating
> Infinite-Monkeys was taking down its RBL service... as it is publicly
> known, starting in the middle of last year, most (free, open) antispam
> services were wildly attacked by spammers, making most of them completely
> unfeasable...
>
> You seem to use some free open stuff (e.g. MailScanner, Infinite-Monkeys
> long dead RBL)...
>
> Would you explain what is the reward you provide to those projects or the
> people behind them?
>
> Do you find that one of them (e.g. I-M RBL) didn't comply with a written
> guarantee they provided? Where's that guarantee written?
>
> Did you ever threatened to sue Microsoft for providing the most unsecure
> environment, prone to all kinds of easy attacks? or did you read their
> EULA saying something along the lines of "if it doesn't work for you,
> it's your problem" and even "if you loose information or whatever because
> of this software we will only be responsible up to the price you paid for
> the license"?
>
> Maybe Ron Guilmette will reimburse the money you paid him for using his
> RBL (about $0)...
>
> El 17 Mar 2004 a las 13:50, James Hammett escribió:
>
>> At 06:57 PM +0000 on 3/17/04, you (Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
>> Solutions) wrote:
>> >  >It was public knowledge since September last that the RBL was being
>> taken
>> >offline. That people continued to use it was their mistake and not that
>> of
>> >the people behind the RBL.
>>
>> Looking through the SUBJECT Lines (with search) of the 7490 message
>> in MY mailscanner mlist archive (Since I subscribed).  The first time
>> Infinite-Monkeys is EVERY discussed (in all 7690 messages since
>> November of last year) was at 12:27 PM on 3/15/04 by brichter.
>>
>> later,
>> James
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>
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> Mariano Absatz
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