FWIW, We fell victim to SPEWS in the same way. We were lucky to have an ISP that was working hard on the problem and assigned us an additional /28 network. We assigned that to another interface on our firewall and are relaying outbound email from that network.
The author of this article is correct: "Trying to deal with the spews admins is equivalent to dealing with children - conversations are circular and not very productive." > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-owner@;declude.com] On Behalf Of Tom > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Spews News > > > The following article about Spews is from the Langa List. > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Fred, I saw your article regarding SpamCop and wanted to let > you and your readers know about a "service" that is even worse > called Spews. Spews doesn't blacklist sites, it blacklists > entire ip ranges as a way to force domain owners, most of whom > are completely innocent but happen to be within the range of > the IP block, to pressure their ISP or service provider to > shutdown the supposed offending spammer. It is my opinion that > Spews (which is completely unreachable if you wish to object > to your being included in an IP range), is actually run by > spammers - as their actions are so heavy handed that they > cause most users to end up dropping the use of RBLs, and as a > consequence more spam ends up getting through to people's > inboxes. More information about my experience is available at > http://www.allpm.com/article.php?sid=261&mode=&order=0&thold=0 > Regards, Michael Lines > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by F-Proto Virus Scanner] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
