On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 09:48 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote:
> At 12:32 AM 12/26/2004 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > > > Didn't SPEWS shut down and blacklist the world?
> > > >
> > > > Thomas
> > >
> > > No.
> >
> >Yes, they did - I found this article on Slashdot.  Did they go down and
> >then come back later?
> >
> >http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0214238
> >
> >Thomas
> 
> No, that's OSIRUSOFT that went down and set it's records to blacklist 
> everything.  OSIRUSOFT included SPEWS as a part of their data, but they 
> also included half a dozen other blacklists and their own data.
> 
> OSIRUSOFT was nothing but a very popular aggregate blacklist that included 
> SPEWS data. SPEWS is a separate entity. SPEWS never went down. 

Ah, I see.  Thanks for the correction.

Thomas

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