<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 13/10/2010, at 4:49 PM, Scott Howard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:19 PM, ComKal Networks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:admin@comkal.com.au">admin@comkal.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">
No, there is NO requirement to pay the/a "donation/fine" to a<br>
particular charity anymore, and this information if not already<br>
updated probably will be soon. The 'required' donation had<br>
a few depends attached to it, is was not, and never had been<br>
always required.<br></blockquote><div><br>From <a href="http://www.sorbs.net/overview.shtml">http://www.sorbs.net/overview.shtml</a> :<br><i> "The affected IPs (the ones used to send the spam)
will only be de-listed when US$50 is donated to a SORBS nominated
charity or good cause. The charities and good causes SORBS approves
will not have any connection with any member of the SORBS
administrators, either past or present."</i><br><br>"only" is a fairly strong word, which imples 'required' if you ask me.<br><br>It sounds like you're claiming that this is outdated, but the simple fact is that it's what the websites states is fact, so how are we expected to believe otherwise?<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>If it's outdated, I'd like to know why it still being there (and extended to netblock owners where multiple IP's had been listed causing the whole netblock to be listed?) was discussed on the DNSBL list last week :-p</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>DG</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Damien Gardner Jnr</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.rendrag.net/">http://www.rendrag.net/</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">--</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">We rode on the winds of the rising storm,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> We ran to the sounds of thunder.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">We danced among the lightning bolts,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> and tore the world asunder</span></div></body></html>