There are many groups out there that are really pushing their power to the limits in order to abuse the abusers so to speak. What I'm talking about is the Anti-Spam camp. Have I got your attention yet?
These guys hate spam, hell everyone hates getting that crap mail, but these guys are doing something about it - perhaps the wrong thing. So what is it I'm talking about? I'm talking about the black-hole lists that are used against anyone even suspected of being involved in any way with spam.
The Anti-Spammers and their associated Nazi friends will take a server and add it to a list, now that server is blocked off from 40% of the Internet! This is what I call abuse of power! Now whom are these guys punishing? Well they are punishing the ISP where the spammer is from; unless it's UUNET or AOL or some other big corporation that gives them free blow jobs, they are punishing the servers who haven't fixed the relay problem in many of the mail daemon applications, and most likely don't even know that their servers are being used to relay spam, and they are punishing the web hosting providers on whom the spammers are hosting their websites!
The first one I can see, the second one makes sense, but they should first alert the server admin to their unsecured server, but the last one just 100% makes me really pissed off. Why? Because what do web pages have to do with spam? I'll tell you, they don't like the opinions of the spammers. That's right, the only reason they are punishing the web providers is that the spammer has pissed them off, and instead of just stopping this guy from spamming again, they will stop at nothing to completely destroy that person's life on the internet, including having his website shut down... for good if they can do it. This is blatant infringement on freedom of speech!
I know of one case where the person involved did not even send any spam, but instead was punished for having a newsletter! A Goddamn newsletter for heavens sake! They just didn't like the message he was preaching, and decided to silence him by making him look like a spammer!
This kind of dictatorship by those who work for the corrupted establishment really gets me angry. I put these guys in the same camp as the content filtering and site blocking software companies that block any site that speaks against their tactics or products. I wouldn't be surprised if I was blocked by many of those companies just for having the balls to speak out against their hypocrisy and fascism.
I mean besides the anti-spam camp, the people who annoy me the most would most definitely be the web filtering companies. They think that they have the right to choose what we can or cannot see, and will block anyone who says otherwise. They think they know what's good for us better than we know ourselves, and in case we try to make a foolish decision they will block out any information that might change our minds about their tactics.
Now back to those anti-spammers again. I wonder if these guys have ever noticed a button labeled "delete" on their keyboard, it's that magical button that I use to deal with any spam that ends up in my mailbox. Quite a nifty little button, maybe more people should learn how to use it.
Their hypocrisy comes when they will censor any small little company, while leaving AOL and it's spam-breathing buddies alone. I guess those blow jobs must really be good, cause them big major networks like AO-Hell are the biggest spam-spitting group of corporate trash that I've ever seen.
Then there is Micro, they claim that they support the anti-spammers and yet their Hotmail service is not only completely filled with spam, but also is where a hell of a lot of spam is being sent from. My normal e-mail address doesn't have much spam in it, but my Hotmail box is constantly filled with spam, every time I check it, and 90% of that spam originated from other Hotmail addresses, the other 10% is mostly from the AO-Hell bastards.
These guys comparisons of spam to being theft of their time and mailbox doesn't hold any water, like I said, there is a delete key you know - learn how to use it! Another great feature of a lot of new mail programs is filters that can be used to weed out the spammers. A lot of these guys don't even use real return addresses, why don't you make it so that it backtracks to see if the address the mail was sent from exists, and if it doesn't, the mail isn't accepted. There are a lot of solutions to the spam problem, but blacklisting a "web-hosting" provider for having a page of a known spammer is as bad as blocking that same provider for having a page criticizing filtering software.
That is like if I, as a pro-life advocate, blacklisted an entire ISP for having a pro-abortion website on it! It's crazy, illogical, and dictatorial! The oppression of those who want to speak their minds must stop, and if it means having someone speaking an opinion you may not agree with, then to bad for you, don't read the page!
The only filtering software I will agree with is software that allows the "user" to choose what they want to be accessible from their computer, and doesn't block sites that may criticize the use of that software.
The only anti-spam measures I would support is to send a warning to the person who sent the spam, and to their ISP warning that on a second offense action will be taken, if the spammer sends again, the ISP hosting them can terminate their account. Plus before any action is taken at all the so callde "spam" must be sent to an independant group who is not associated with the anti-spam camp to see if it really falls into the category of spam, as I know that newsletters and mailing lists that the user must subscribe to in order to join, are not spam, which makes the case of my friend who was framed immediately justified being that in order to receive a news letter on a mailing list, you must first subscribe to that mailing list. If a mail server has not restricted relaying, then send a notice to them telling them of their insecure server; don't just blacklist them without warning!
I myself have come across the problems of blacklists, some spammers somehow got ahold of some unused IP addresses from my webhosting provider, and used them to relay mail through our mail server. This was not even a case of normal relaying, but of down-right hacking. What happened? Every one of the hundreds of customers got added to the blacklist. Is this fair? I don't think so. Blacklists are a fascist concept of censorship, made up by a bunch of people who figure they'll punish everyone for the crimes of a few. It's like saying that if one person in your neighborhood commits a crime, everyone living there is going to jail. In other words, it's bullshit.
Of course I doubt that any of the hypocritical Nazis who are behind the oppression will listen, but you know the saying, do unto others as they do onto you? Maybe a bit of karma would wake these jokers up - you know what I'm talking about, don't you?