[CLUE-Tech] Brute force attack from host 208.188.115.21

[Don Collier]

Indians don't walk single file??

Collins Richey wrote:

>On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:37:42 -0400
>"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:
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>>On Thursday 05 August 2004 12:32 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:59:02 -0400
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>>>"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:
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>>>>On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:43 am, Collins Richey wrote:
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>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...
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>>>>It got to the point where it seriously disrupted my communications
>>>>with people.
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>>>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?
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>>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.  
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>[ lots of grief snipped ]
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>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.
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>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.
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>Pretty lame.
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>My evil twin would wish that there was a way to block all services for
>those who block my emails.
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> Meanwhile, my comcast service keeps humming right along, and I
>get relatively little spam.
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