A Word About Bitch-list.net

Bitch-list.net is a web site which lists a number of contact email addresses
for ISPs who do not respond to spam complaints sent to their abuse@ address.
The theory is that if abuse@ can't, or won't, do anything about the spam problem,
perhaps sending spam complaints to a large number of employees of the spam
friendly ISP will get the ISP to take action against their spammers. While this
is a good idea and one we support, we couldn't help but notice a glaring
ommission at the bitch-list.net web site.

As anyone who has an email address knows, spam from Sprint customers is
one of the greatest sources of spam on the internet. Complaints to Sprint seem
to be ignored. The same spam from the same Sprint customers is received again
and again, day after day. Interestingly, Bitch-list.net does not have a listing for
Sprint. Why is that? Even more interesting is the fact that there used to be a
listing for Sprint several months ago, but Bitch-list.net has since removed it.

Has Sprint cleaned up their spam problem in recent months? The answer sadly
is, no. Has the spam from Sprint increased in recent months? The answer sadly
is, yes. At worst Sprint has done nothing to correct their spam problem. At
best they have done the bare minimum possible to be removed from blocklists.
So why was the listing at Bitch-list.net removed? Has the owner of the list been
paid off by Sprint in some way? Money, free internet access, free web hosting? He
has stated publicly that he does have a contact at Sprint. Is this a friend that he does
not want to offend by listing Sprint at the Bitch-list.net web site? It is anyone's guess
as to why the listing for Sprint was removed. However, one thing is certain. Something
about this doesn't smell right.

Based on Sprint's history of spam, as well as their current spam problem and lack of
action, one can only conclude that Bitch-list.net has less than honorable motives in
regard to their decision to remove Sprint from their list. We can no longer depend
on Bitch-list.net to be an unbiased source of information in the fight against spam.
For this reason we can no longer support Bitch-list.net

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