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Spammers Land Optusnet On spews.org Blacklist

Posted by timothy on from the anger-is-good-use-the-force dept.

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."

6 of 160 comments (clear)

  1. Spews.com is a porn site! by jelwell · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How did that porn sneak into the article?

    Someone is not checking the (non) links!
    I highly doubt a porn site that pops up banner ads is a well regarded spammer blacklist site.
    Joseph Elwell.

  2. Well maybe they weren't doing their job by GoatPigSheep · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All internet companies have a duty to stamp out spam. If they do not they get blacklisted. Maybe optusnet should try and do a better job at bringing joustice to spam throwers.

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    GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
  3. New SPAM logo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could it be that /. is finally respecting Hormel's trademark? Was it out of goodwill or did the lawyers come a-callin'?

  4. I see Slashdot has changed its "spam" icon... by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When did this happen? I actually like the new icon. The old one was a little disparaging to Hormel.
    I could never stand SPAM anyway. I guess I'd eat it if I were trapped in a fallout shelter. Maybe.

  5. How to deal by Lothsahn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At times like this, I kinda wish that ISP's would create an e-mail system where anyone wanting to send me an e-mail was charged, say, .02c, for instance. My e-mails could pay for part of my internet connection, and spammers wouldn't spam as much, because it'd highly raise the cost of messaging me. When the user read the message the first time, he would also have the option of waiving the fee for his friends, family, etc. I know it'd take a lot to implement this, but it'd be a really great system.

    On another note: I've been getting Chinese spam at my e-mail address for quite a while now. At first, it was only coming from one address for a while, but now it's coming from multiple addresses. This would all be well and good, except I DON'T SPEAK CHINESE. Feh. We've gotta do something.

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    -=Lothsahn=-
  6. Hmmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In checking some of the spews.org listings for the spammers involved, I noticed that several of them list their HOME TELEPHONE NUMBERS on their whois records...

    Shouldn't we show them how much we LIKE their
    service(s)... say by calling them up and telling them ...at 3 A.M.?

    I think that's a great idea myself....