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Story: Spamhaus rebuts vendor accusations

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Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 7 February 2005, 7:31 PM)

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Spamhaus has a direct financial interest in overstating the Spam problem. Further, their "blacklist" system is fundamentally flawed and they know it. It is inevitable that more and more ISP servers will get added to Spamhaus' blacklists given how low the threshold is to be placed on them in the first place. So Spamhaus' only way to justify thier flawed system is to hype the spam problem and point the finger at the ISP's, rather than admit thier anti-spam architecture sufferers from a fundamental and uncorrectable design flaw.

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