Alex, We also ran into a problem with the guys from news.admin.net-abuse.email. I think that they are a bunch of cklueless people trying to do anti-spam by personal vendettas. one of the guys actually told me that MAPS was a dead issue ever since they 'allowed' a company to spam because they received a sum of money for it. I doubt Paul would enjoy hearing about this, but I also think he isn't suprised. SPEWS is not a good service, yet you get all these system admins with a chip on their shoulder to back it up and support it. My two cents. Shon Elliott Systems/Network Administrator; NetAsset Alex Rubenstein wrote:
I've had a little run-in with SPEWS, and the crowd on news:news.admin.net-abuse.email.
I'm curious; do folks take these guys serious?
I'll admit, we had an issue with a customer who spammed, and it took us a little while to zap him. Nevertheless, he was zapped. He had a /27, and SPEWs listed the entire /24 surrounding it. When I asked about this, they said, in not-so-many-words, that by doing this, punishing innocent bystanders, that as long as the ISP noticed and fixed the issue, this was essentially OK to do.
Of course, I disagreed, and was called all sorts of names that I'd not used since I was 14.
So, to the point; what is the consensus on SPEWs? I've never really noticed them until this point.
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