On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Alex Rubenstein wrote:

So, to the point; what is the consensus on SPEWs? I've never really noticed them until this point.

I'm still trying to understand two points: 1) WHO is SPEWS (who is beyond that, who runs that stuff)??? 2) WHO uses it??? (I mean: who really big - like Yahoo!, Hotmail etc is using their list) I know that several netblocks listed there are really spamheavens (like Telefonica Brazil), but they are now listing /24 even if only IP in that netblock is spamming... They may even be serious, but listing /24 and bigger ranges without showing the evidence for that listing is really crazy and insane...