Does the name 'Ed Kelleher' ring any bells?

[Doc Shipley]

Paul Koning wrote:

>>>>>>"Jay" == Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> writes:
> 
>  Jay> I am not aware of ORBS blocking whole domains, however, there
>  Jay> ARE some domains out there that are so exclusively the home of
>  Jay> spammers I can certainly understand it.
> 
> I'm not sure if it was ORBS or another one of those blacklist
> "services".  In any case, it was blacklisting all domains belonging to
> SPRINT and SPRINTnet.  I found out because our company uses or used
> SPRINT as its ISP, as do millions of others.  It turned out that this
> was done on purpose.
> 
> I concluded that the people running that blacklist are utter morons,
> and since then I have seen similar idiotic actions either by that same
> outfit or by others like it (for example, blacklisting adelphia.net
> smtp servers because one Adelphia customer sent spam via that server).

   That was ORBS, IIRC, and I have to agree with you concerning their 
apparent intelligence.  Their practices and processes seem much closer 
to ideological extortion than to spam prevention.


	Doc