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It's not censorship; it's simple property rights and basic freedom. I don't consent to someone else using bandwidth that I have paid for, space on my hard disk,

It's not censorship; it's simple property rights and basic freedom. I don't consent to someone else using bandwidth that I have paid for, space on my hard disk, or my attention and time, for advertising. Hosting is cheap enough; they can get their own damn website and opt-in mailing list. And spamhaus subscriptions are completely voluntary and optional. That being said, the problem with many BL's is that they are run by incompetents or extremists. They usually either end up blocking things that are not spam by accident (see lists of supposedly dynamic IPs), or block whole subnets (sometimes entire ISPs) to try and "teach them a lesson." or blackmail them into fixing the problem.

lazyjones 14y ago
> That being said, the problem with many BL's is that they are run by incompetents or extremists. Unfortunately, that includes Spamhaus. It's a bit sad to see how many companies will blindly support such entities because they've "heard" that they somehow help fight spam. As someone who's had issues with them because of their badly configured hosts and shady practices (e.g. using domains previously used by mail providers as "spam honeypots", meaning anyone who emails someone with an old address can be banned [all content mailed there is considered spam, regardless of what it actually is]), I am disappointed (yes, looking at you cloudflare).