FC: Earthlink's anti-spam rules imperil subculture mailing list

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:23:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Annalee Newitz <brainsploitation () yahoo com>
Reply-To: annalee () techsploitation com
Subject: Earthlink's absurd open relay policy
To: declan () well com

Hey Declan. Readers may be interested in this story
about Earthlink's (lack of) policy related to whose
mail servers they block and why. A large subculture
list in San Francisco was blocked because an obscure
security hole in their servers came up as an "open
relay" when Earthlink hacked (erm, "scanned") their
mail server. Raises some interesting questions about
free speech.

Annalee

Here's a snippet:

Where did the Squid List go? And what about all the
other subculture e-mail lists hosted on the Laughing
Squid servers, such as the one for Burning Man
barflies and the one for fans of exploitation movies?
Scott Beale, owner of San Francisco Web-hosting
company Laughing Squid and "primary tentacle" of
underground event bulletin Squid List, started hearing
those questions from users who weren't getting their
daily doses of Squid. "At first I thought it was
nothing - just a few e-mails that didn't get through,"
he said.

But as days went by, he realized that the only people
who weren't receiving e-mail from Laughing Squid were
Earthlink customers. . .

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14008


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Annalee Newitz
tech * pop * sex
415.487.2559 - cell: 415.378.4498
www.techsploitation.com




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