[IMail Forum] Help with getting unlisted on anti-spam DB

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Hi Everyone,   We just moved to a new provider this month and have found ourselves listed in the SPEWS, XBL, and spews.relays.osirusoft.com lists due to some idiot who uses the same provider and that sent a bunch of spam a while back.  It looks like the osirusoft.com list is a duplicate of the SPEWS list.   I've talked to our provider and they claim to have removed the offending content and have been able to get themselves removed from all the other lists that they were in due to this guy, but they said that they have been trying for months to get removed from the SPEWS list with no luck or response.  I've sent a message to the news group that the SPEWS site says to, but I'm not holding my breath.   It seems that SPEWS doesn't bother blocking the offending IP, they just block the whole darn range!  Does anyone else have a problem with this?  I mean this idiot has like 5 IPs, but they block the whole 66.28.43.0/255 range with no regard for anyone else.   To me, this is the worse kind of spam police tactics, more like spam stormtroopers.  Don't get me wrong, I HATE spam, especially the porn kind that my kids get!  But to block everyone because of what one idiot did is just plain WRONG.   Do a lot of you use SPEWS?  If so, why would you use a service that blocks 99% legit email because of 1% of abuse from a different IP?   Thanks,   Mike Achenbach