blacklisting by SORBS

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 10:35 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> This is not strictly a Fedora question, but I would like to query the list on 
> this since it's such a large user base. Recently, our ISP has been added to 
> the SORBS blacklist as a source of spam. We're being told that SORBS is 
> demanding money from our ISP to remove them from the list. I can't speak to 
> whether the ISP is or is not a source of large amounts of spam, though it 
> seems unlikely, since they are in the Washington, DC area, and have many 
> government agencies as clients. Two questions: Is anyone else having 
> questionable issues with SORBS? Does it sound like extortion for such a 
> service to be asking for money from an ISP to remove them from such a list? 
> -- 
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA
> 

Yes it does.  Maybe the Attorney General of your state should be
notified.

http://www.oag.state.va.us/

(IANAL)

Bob...