] NSXDavid writes "Earlier today our site mysteriously
] ended up on Joe Jared's Osirusoft SPAM blacklist which is
] used by lots of antispam software (like SpamAssassin and
] sendmail). Since he is currently under a serious DDoS
] attack, there was no way to appeal this decision. We
] contacted Mr. Jared by phone who informed us that
] 'everyone needs to stop using Osirusoft and that he's
] going to be shutting the service down.' Then he says he's
] going to blacklist 'the world' (aka, ban *.*.*.*) to get
] his point across. Later on this evening, he apparently
] went ahead and did just that. Succumbing to lawsuits and
] DDoS, a once great blacklist is dead. SpamAssassin is
] removing it from their config in the next release (rc3)
] and email admins around the globe are reconfiguring their
] mail servers."

"NSXDavid" is at my own company, Simutronics. As a result of Osirusoft's actions, we are now having (even more) trouble getting emails through to our own customers. I can appreciate Osirusoft's frustration, but especially with the mess being caused by worms such as Sobig and Blaster, all Osirusoft seems to have done is just make an already bad situation even worse.

The Boston Globe called us this afternoon for an interview, and is writing a story as we speak. Stay tuned . . .