[ale] sometimes whining helps

Jim Popovitch jimpop at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 10:40:25 EST 2010


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:38, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:22, drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
>> Last week I bitched to saix.net that I was tired of the spam
>> coming from one of their servers. I also suggested to my ISP
>> that perhaps they might cut off the entire domain.
>> I'm not certain which whiney letter did the trick, but I actually
>> got a response back from saix.net that identified the spamming
>> user. It will be interesting to see if telkomsa (the sub domain
>> providing service to the offending computer) actually reports
>> back to me on what they have done to deal with the spam.
>
> Speakeasy is no more likely to block all of South Africa than Comcast
> would be inclined to block all of Europe.    It doesn't work like
> that. ;-)

Just for clarity, when you say "bitched" do you mean follow the
instructions on this page:
          http://www.saix.net/cgi-bin/saix_contacts.pl

-Jim P.



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