We haven't talked about goals in a long time

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I've also been fighting with some asshole in Australia. He runs the SORBS spam list. His name is Matthew Sullivan and he apparently thinks it's ok to put people on a list even when they don't spam, they prove they have a static IP with rDNS, they install spam firewalls, etc.

He says, "It's not a spam list. It's a list of people who have dynamic IPs". But either way I don't belong on the list. I don't spam or have a dynamic IP.

He thinks it's up to him and his nerdy little friends he plays world of warcraft with, to determine what network settings other people will have.

Unfortunately for some odd reason, legitimate businesses are subscribing to his illegitimate list. I think they just subscribe to them all. But this means we can't send email to anyone at Earthlink, Yahoo, and a number of other very large ISPs and smaller ones.

I sent this guy a very polite letter, and he got snippy and insulting with me, so I sent another polite letter and he eventually started just calling me names. He posted my email in a newsgroup filled with other idiots who run other lists, and our spam load tripled. They deny having anything to do with it, but they have no honor, or integrity. The only list with more false positives than SORBS is SPEWS and some jackass from there wanted to mouth off to me too.

I've done all I can to comply with SORBS, but now I'm going to change ISPs. If they add us to their list again, I'll fly my ass all the way to Australia, beat the living shit out of this guy, and then sue him until he can't afford to live in his mother's basement anymore.