From the BBC:



*Chief executive for Spamhaus

More here.

I really detest spam filters. There's no such thing as zero false positives, so some important mail will always be lost when using systems primarily based on guesswork - or "heuristics", as it's sometimes known. The combination of permitting anonymous email, and then trying to filter out the bad ones is inherently flawed.

What really gets my goat is that we've had the solutions available for over a decade. If everyone just used authenticated mail the problem would be pretty much eliminated over night, but we don't even have to go that far. Simply implementing SPF correctly would be a good start, but even my bank fails to do this resulting in some of their emails going into my spam. Some DNS providers such as 1&1 don't even support it! Then there's SAV which some argue is an even better solution.

That said, I have nothing really against Spamhaus. It's the unintelligent application of the data they provide which is the main problem.

If the mail relay you use gets listed, then good luck fixing that. Some people will receive the emails you send, and some wont. It depends on how crude their filtering is, and there's probably nothing you can do to fix it. Except a DDOS attack on Spamhaus.

I noticed it, I thought that my connection was slow. I did a test with my iPhone and even that was down to 500 kbps even over 3G. It is now back up to 14.31 Mbps. At the time I had no idea what was causing it.

Not been noticing any slowdowns here.

+1, even in work earlier.

Over all the other rants you have about the people you work with then I doubt it even registered.

I've been migrated about 100 web sites between 2 datacentres over the last few days - oh it caused some fun .

If the web has been slow that has probably meant it has taken a lot longer than you planned?

not particularly but all sorts of time out issues and applications being blocked.

I doubt I would notice anything here either way.

I haven't noticed anything here.

Although they are now saying that an anchor in Egypt caused problems there and I think Italy (or somewhere in the Med, I was walking the dog when I heard it) had another anchor chew through one of their underwater cables...

There are dozens of lines crossing the major seas and rivers, and never just one crossing any given waterway or ocean. Seriously, 'the internet' is almost stupidly resilient at the really high level. It would take something verging on a world war to cut the parts of the civilised world off from each other. And the amount of traffic the DDOS is supposed to have caused is a slow Sunday morning, not anything the major hubs can't deal with. Maybe SpamHaus themselves will have a problem which could mess up email flow (a lot of places use SpamHaus for RDNS checks for blacklist checks , and if it's not responding it could slow the rate of email flow down somewhat) but other than that? Barely even a ripple on the pond.

Several of the sites that I visit, use Cloud Flare as their protection, and all were slow at best when they weren't completely off-line during the recent attack. Other than those I didn't notice any other problems while browsing.

Interesting. I'd have no idea who uses CloudFlare, but that seems perfectly likely.

So far from being an advert to use them, it sounds like a good reason not to!