Spammers Land Optusnet On spews.org Blacklist

downundarob writes: "In Australia there are essentially only two major backbone suppliers; eventually all traffic either rides on Telstra (Part govt. owned) or OptusNet (part of C&W Optus). According to this page OptusNet has gotten itself on spews.com blacklist, potentially causing issues for a large percentage of Australian Internet users." Update: 09/30 12:01 GMT by T :DanielS writes: "Looks like Optus did indeed back down; according to the SPEWS listing & delisting info page, Optus were removed after shutting down the DNS service."

Comments

Re:Well maybe they weren't doing their job

[bakes]

Maybe optusnet should try and do a better job at bringing joustice to spam throwers

Yes, I agree that skewering spammers with long pointy sticks is a great idea.