I work at an ISP and our entire netblock (over 65,000 IP addresses) was blocked a few months back by SORBS, basically on a whim. We eventually got them to yank the block by embarrasing them on a major Sysadmin newsgroup (they made response zero to our attempts to contact them via their documented support system).

Check http://www.sennicam.com/blog/archives/000010.html for a bit more on the situation.

And hey, feel free to join our campaign to Google bomb SORBS with the phrase "Worthless Project" by linking to their site (http://www.sorbs.net) with the link text "Worthless Project".

We've already gotten it up to #3 on the page rank. A few more should push it over the top...

As this post was too long to have here, I have asked a friend to host it.

http://snailsoft.cjb.net:20080/PHP_Message_Board/showthread.php?t=14

User: abates Date: 2004-11-18 11:24 (UTC) Subject: Re: SORBS out to destroy email!!!

Looks like SORBS is getting even more zealous in their blocking. :P

My entire cable connection was killed because of SORBS ridiculousness. My ISP [Cox Communications] uses them and Cox trusts SORBS enough to kill the connection to any user found on SORBS. I had no Internet for weeks until I could get a new IP address.