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Subject: Re: blackmail attempt?  Stable mailing list block?
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While Blars is legitimate (I ported his "hinfo" utility that consolidates
lookup information of various spam-blocks), he is the most radical
of all the spam-block-list maintainers.  This "consulting rate" BS
is the only known mechanism of appeal to get off of his own list,
which is so all-inclusive that it is useless for actual email filtering.
(His IP granularity is generally /24).

I honestly don't know why the man doesn't go to an ask-first
system if he's that aggressive about it, but there it is.

And I can't ask him why, either, as I'm in one of those /24s.

mcl