Re: Spamhaus slams Gmail and other e-mailing lists services for spamming

The Doctor writes:

This morning, I saw my SMTP server showing logs that spamhaus blocked google
gmail and other mailing lists for spamming.
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I have no sympathy for cretins.

Which cretins would that be?
My first reaction was "spamhaus" who?
Spamhaus hasn't been relevant in, oh I don't know how long. I heard their  original mission statement was to block prolific spam sources. That was just  a rumor. When I used them, I tried very hard to find any evidence of that  actually happening. I couldn't. Again, again, and again I saw massive  spewage, spewage that just cannot be unnoticed, continue unabated.
I was told that Spamhaus preferred to work with the spamhosters. Make them  see the error of their ways. Give them all the time in the world to see the  error of their ways. Blah, blah, blah.
I had no idea they were still around. I thought they were practically gone,  relegated to some checkmark on a flashy ad for low-level "mail server in a  box" appliances.
The Spamhaus that I knew would never blacklist Gmail. I'm afraid it's too  late. Nobody cares about this, any more. The email landscape had shifted  over the last couple of decades. It's a brand new world, now.