macdaddy's Journal: Two more DNS Blocklists forced of the Net

Submitted to /. 20030823

Hot on the heels of the demise of Osirusoft.com, news is spreading of the demise of the Monkeys.com and of the (at least) temporary demise of OpenRBL. Monkeys.com is known for providing the Unsecured Proxies List, UPL which was highly effective at combating open proxy spam. The wave of DDoS attacks against DNS Blocklist servers is gaining speed. Who's the next target: SpamCop, NJABL, MAPS or ORDB? What does it take to get the FBI involved in tracking down the sources of the DDoS attacks with possible ties to the recent viruses that create a distributed network of open proxies?

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And how long did it take for the /. editing cronies to reject my story? 10 whole minutes! Wow. Now if only they'd put that much effort into eliminating dupes the world would be a much better place.

BTW, I'm starting something new with this submission. Whenever I make story submission to Slashdot I will post it to my journal as well. That way myself and others can view what I wrote and still get something out of it, regardless of whether it was accepted or not. I encourage others to do the same thing.