[LINK] Anti-spam lobby blacklists Optus

[Yiah]

> >Anti-spam lobby blacklists Optus
> >OPTUS dial-up internet users could lose access to overseas
> >websites and email after network administrators voted to
> >blacklist Optus for refusing to crack down on an alleged
> >spam gang.
> >http://email.ni.com.au/Click?q=32-Gx2IIrQYQHmAtsNoT_0mZJyR
>
> I wonder what's next ... the anti-spam mob will blacklist any ISP that
> hosts a webpage with content they disagree with? [insert slippery slope
> argument here ;-)]
>
A number of yrs ago when I was with them, Ozemail was blacklisted by a group
whose name I can't recall but which was subscribed to by a lot of ISPs. A
lot of my friends used said ISPs and as a result I spent two weeks
incommunicado with them (rather trying for an email junkie like myself) and
too communicado with Ozemail. It was one of the most profoundly stupid
experiences of my life. I phoned ozemail and asked them what was wrong. They
didn't know. I emailed the anti spam group (it was kind of amusing that I
could contact *them* so readily) and they wrote back explaining that ozemail
was blacklisted because there was a spammer. I fwded their email to ozemail,
who were still clueless (I was apparently the first person to make such a
complaint). I then got back a further reply telling me that they would
having meetings about it and would try to tell this group that they weren't
housing any nasty spammers. Same message every day for far too many days.
It's not as though they're a backyard ISP or something, you'd think that
they could have done better. I told them that I thought that their service
was appalling and that I'd leave. It got fixed in two weeks (way too long
imnsho) and I left anyway.


Yiah (recent LINK subscriber and probably most time lurker)