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It is reasonable to not want your name plastered on a website run by vigilante cyber police who we have given quasi-law enforcement powers and the ability to de facto shut down ISPs (and in one case a ccTLD). It's even more reasonable when you realize they are incorporated in Andorra - good luck suing them if they get something wrong!

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I've seen Microsoft, Yahoo and Google all blackhole IP blocks wrongly because they were mixed up with IPs operated by spammers but I've never seen Spamhaus do this, in fact they went absolutely out of their way (without any requests from us) to ensure that our lonely IP on a Toronto ISP that did a lot of shady stuff was excepted.

You and the parent are both correct, which is the problem. Spamhaus is notorious for inconsistent behavior, driven largely by the personal whims of individual employees.

The fact anyone is reading anything from there at all seems better than Google et al.

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