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See http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/spamhausspewsaffidavit.htm for an explanation of which laws SpamHaus has repeatedly violated. Also note that E360 won a lawsuit against SpamHaus in 2011, although the legal fees ended up being more than the penalty SpamHaus was forced to pay...

The additional IP addresses are in a /29 or /28 block, which I think isn't useful for spammers anyway. Almost all of the abuse came from clients with /30 (one useable IP) and /29 blocks. We already dealt with the issues and have instituted manual screening of new customers; yet SpamHaus is...

Look at Burst.Net's method of informing customers about their promotion policy. They have a checkbox on the order page that explicitly states it to avoid any confusion, and requires the customer to check the box. If you care then you should do the same.

Fair enough. Still, a) I don't think most people re-read the terms of service after the first time, B) you could have made it more clear about the promotions (by showing on order page) but didn't do so, and c) you could have refunded the money to my Paypal account instead of keeping it locked...

No, you changed the terms of service...

Also it says I received no such notice about the modifications to the agreement. I don't see any news posted anywhere about the change on their website.

My fault for not reading every word in their 400-word post, but they could have at least refunded my order instead of keeping my money.

Feathur is now free software, under AGPL. http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/384333/#Comment_384333

We restrict public/open proxies and virtual private networks than any anonymous user can connect to. If there is a restricted set of users (substantionally less than the total amount of Internet users) allowed to connect (private proxy/VPN, including VPN services and such), then that is fine...

Can you clarify which of the restricted uses you were planning on using? The uses are mostly to curb the number of abuse complaints. Also if you search on LET we made offer for $7/mo for the same plan.

I hear the NSA has some good technologies suited for this purpose.

It's only $3.50/mo per node if I understand correctly. I believe the master node is free and each slave is counted.

Hm. Good point, not sure. But pretty sure the forum bits can't, otherwise whoever wrote the forum should be famous.

Also exec statements could be done better; if you can't find a library that handles argument escaping, then implement something that does the escaping automatically from arguments instead of using escapeshellarg every time. Probably you could just pass in an array of separate arguments...

The forum is just some bits sitting on a couple of servers, it doesn't have anything against CC.

Feathur has ~4000 lines of actual back-end code. The rest are libraries and templates and such. Also pretty sure that there's a theoretical vulnerability in the forgot password implementation -- it uses random_string, which utilizes mt_rand, which does not generate cryptographically secure...

There is no license checking system built-in to the software. There is an external one on their website.

Well, at least the source isn't encoded, so if there's a feature you want to add or a security issue you want to fix you could code it without relying on "Feathur LLC" (although modifying it may very well violate the license, because of the way it is written). Fake edit: they're taking...

Any modifications you make are owned by Feathur LLC (i.e., including the modifications themselves). I wouldn't even make any modifications to the code or submit a pull request without first consulting a lawyer or receiving written permission from them as it may very well violate their license...

Not at the moment.