Spamhaus takes warning shot at the NRA
Brian McWilliams writes over on the Spam Kings Blog:
Spamhaus has blacklisted an Internet protocol (IP) address assigned to the National Rifle Association (NRA). According to the anti-spam organization, the NRA's is "sending to spamtraps, not honoring unsubscribes."
Spamhaus rarely shies away from battling spammers, but it's apparently wary of picking a fight with the gun rights group. The IP blacklisted by Spamhaus (208.253.77.224) isn't actually in current use by the NRA for sending email or hosting web sites.
In its explanation for the intentional misfire, which went into effect September 30, Spamhaus said that the NRA "sends enough opt-in mail that blocking the source www.nranews.org [208.253.77.250] is not desireable [sic]." Spamhaus also says that MCI, which hosts the NRA address, "needs to work with this customer on list hygeine."
posted by Fergie @ 10/13/2005 01:28:00 PM
1 Comments:
note, the ip spamhaus blacklisted is a uunet ip address. anything spamhaus can do to raise the number of listings for uunet... they do it.
motivations, you have to wonder about the motivations of all blacklist operators.
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