Spammers Land Optusnet On spews.org Blacklist

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 29, 2001 @06:16PM 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."

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Spews.com is a porn site! by jelwell · 2001-09-29 18:21 · 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.