The judge said of comments made on the Internet: "I must say I know of no forum in which an individual citizen has the freedom to say what he likes and in any manner he wishes about another individual citizen with immunity from suit for all consequences." And so he made sure there wasn't.
I'm not interested in using blacklists constructed based on personal vendettas, I'm interested in using blacklists that stop spam.
Then Rich, as noble as your intentions may be, you just don't understand the nature of blacklists and the people who create them.
Alan Brown took over ORBS.ORG after it was kicked out of Canada. Brown used ORBS for revenge against ISPs that he didn't like, even though they did not operate Open Relays. He then used the ORBS blacklist to block anyone who displeased him--reasons that frequently had nothing to do with spam. He was sued by two ISPs over false listings. He lost. ORBS was shutdown. Brown moved on to SPEWS and SORBS.NET