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Re: Another DNS blacklist is taken down

  • From: Mike Tancsa
  • Date: Mon Sep 29 14:00:24 2003 
At 01:49 PM 29/09/2003, Jared Mauch wrote:


On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:11:08PM -0400, Dan Armstrong wrote:
> Isn't that collateral damage issue enough to have angered hundreds of ISPs
> & end users to the point of not necessarily organizing a DDoS, but ignoring
> it?  I think it is far _more_ likely that the DDoS came from the innocent
> victims fighting back rather than the spammers.

        Presently I beg to differ. (I do encourage you to prove me wrong :)
Especially in the case of SPAMHAUS, they were no XRBL. What networks were really listed as collateral damage ? I dont see how willtel was an innocent bystander either in the previous case.

---Mike