Culture Jamming

[false positive]

FYI...

- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/cbl_blacklists_messagelabs_isps/
11 April 2008 - "One of the biggest spam block lists on the internet suffered an embarrassing technical cock-up today which blocked emails from some servers at web security monitoring firm MessageLabs and at some ISPs for about five hours. The CBL (Composite Blocking List), a DNS blacklist that takes its source data from very large spamtraps and lists IP addresses of open proxies and worms/viruses, said on its website that a problem in a contributory feed spat out a number of invalid lists... A spokeswoman at MessageLabs told The Register that others were affected by yesterday's false positive. According to “word on the street”, Microsoft's Hotmail was also blocked from sending email from some of its servers for a large part of the day, she said..."