whortleberry

They added Google Doc ip addresses to their RBL, so that SMTP traffic from those IPs would be blocked by those who chose to run Spamhaus' blacklist.

More damage than spammers? I see you've never run a mailserver. I have and I know that Spamhaus are one of the good guys doing a hard thankless job, risking lawsuits and threats, in order to keep email as a useful tool. Spamhaus' RBL is the most reputable of all of them, thanks to years of hard work and sacrifice.

The only people who don't like Spamhaus, in my view, are those ISPs who were happy to make money from selling connectivity to spammers while pretending in public that they hated spam. Them, and people who don't understand what Spamhaus do, like the author of this article, and who think Spamhaus are to blame for their troubles.

I cannot ever recall seeing a more misleading and manipulative posting attempting to garner undeserved sympathy by falsely trying to associate one's case with bad legislation. This has nothing to do with SOPA, it is not remotely related to anything SOPA, and at worst, these kinds of false analogies only serve to weaken the case against the very real harm that SOPA will do.

Spamhaus are not the villains here. First of all, you make the absurd complaint that Spamhaus "blacklisted" your domain. That is a lie. Spamhaus runs an SMTP blacklist of ip addresses that some other SMTP providers use, not all. There is no way for Spamhaus to blacklist anyone's domain.

So what actually happened? Spamhaus detected a spammer website hosted on your company's ip addresses, and they did the responsible thing. They reported the spam website to the ISP hosting it.

As for your claim that Bluehost shut off the DNS, why aren't you ringing up Bluehost to demand that they restore it? You might find that a better use of your time than making these absurd allegations and trying to win sympathy by making comparisons to SOPA where none exist.