[CLUE-Tech] Brute force attack from host 208.188.115.21

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:37:42 -0400
"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 05 August 2004 12:32 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:59:02 -0400
> >
> > "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:43 am, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > > Yes, 'automated' is a bad thing for some of us. I as a happy
> > > > comcast(< attbi <@home) user have suffered from the overzealous
> > > > application of automated spam rules to the comcast ip space.
> > >
> > > Automated dealing with spam and virus issues and being extremeley
> > > heavy-handed about it was why I switched away from my former
> > > provider,
> > >  and one of the reasons I'd do it again...
> > >
> > > It got to the point where it seriously disrupted my communications
> > > with people.
> >
> > It's not clear to me what you mean. Did your former ISP prevent
> > users from contacting you, or (as is my case) did others refuse your
> > mails because of your chosen ISP?
> 
> There's a fella out in BC (Canada) that I correspond with regularly, 
> in fact I got two emails from him this evening.  He's on a cable
> connection,  and his ISP was on some list or other of "sources of
> spam" so they blocked it.  

[ lots of grief snipped ]

Wow, that's quite a tale of woe. Fortunately I only have two occurrences
- one of the subscribers on another list (an isp in the Pacific
Northwest Area) and the xfce users list. Both of them are firm believers
in the "Comcast is evil" religion. Since I don't need any of them, they
can rot in hell as far as I'm concerned.

I've tried explaining to them that their approach is just as sad as the
"all the Indians I saw walk single file; therefore, all Indians walk
single file" concept. post hoc ergo propter hoc. I saw spam from this ip
address; therefore all users from this ip address must be spammers.

Pretty lame.

My evil twin would wish that there was a way to block all services for
those who block my emails.

 Meanwhile, my comcast service keeps humming right along, and I
get relatively little spam.

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