Does the name 'Ed Kelleher' ring any bells?

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Thu Sep 2 14:03:15 CDT 2004


>>>>> "Gene" == Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> writes:

 >> 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).

 Gene> They're not morons, they just have a ruthless attitude about
 Gene> companies that won't enforce their own AUP.

I guess we'll just have different opinions here.  I will continue to
view them as morons and describe them as morons whenever this issue
comes up.

    paul




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