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We Hate Spam Except, Of Course, When It's Inconvenient to Do So

• Comment posted Jun 30, 2005 9:09 pm PDT — by Paul Graham
  Yahoo appears to have booted the spammer several days ago.  But since Spamhaus's system doesn't have the ability to notice that the spammer's site has moved, the blacklist entry will presumably remain for days or months, now harming *only* innocent…

• Comment posted Jun 30, 2005 9:02 pm PDT — by Paul Graham
  Spamhaus did not list the minimum number of IP addresses to target the spammer.  They listed the spammer's IP address, and also another IP address shared by thousands of Yahoo Store users. As for getting Yahoo to delete the spammer's…

• Comment posted Jun 29, 2005 3:16 pm PDT — by Paul Graham
  I point out an error that invalidates the central claim of your article ("So the SBL did what they usually do in such cases: they added the single IP address where textileshop's web site lives to the SBL.") and you…

• Comment posted Jun 27, 2005 5:13 pm PDT — by Paul Graham
  The IP address spamhaus blacklisted because of textileshop is 66.163.161.45, which is what store.yahoo.com resolves to.  So while that is "a single IP address" it is shared by the cgi scripts of all the thousands of Y Store users.