[nsp-sec] block.blars.org

[Chris Morrow]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Tim Wilde wrote:

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> Campisano, Mario wrote:
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> | Has anyone ever heard of "block.blars.org"?  It appears that their
> | domain is no longer active, yet, I had a customer who reports that
> | they are that block list?  I find it kind of strange that this list
> | is affecting them, since the domain is dead, but, I figured I would
> | throw it out there for a possible contact?
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> I don't think I've ever come across a reasonable way to contact Blars -
> the BlarsBL has always been a "do not use this, it's for my use only"

his website used to say this, and for a time he was one of the 'I'll take 
5000 to respond to your email abut the blocking' guys...

https://gallery.debconf.org/d/24277-2/CIMG0153.jpg

also he's a nudist! WEE! (no that pick is not nude)

> kind of list, with an enormous amount of collateral damage.  If it's no
> longer around, good riddance, if you ask me.  Googling for "blarsbl"
> will find you plenty of others who aren't too happy with it either, but
> not much luck as far as contact info.

There was a time when one of the blacklist checker sites listed blars's 
list, we (at uunet) would take customer calls when their 'secuerity 
consultant' would do whatever they did and tripped across the BL 
listing... fun times!

-Chris
goog-sec-guy