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."

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[Scoria]

Hmm, I read the article quickly, but it appears that they're blacklisting the ISP for not cracking down on spammers.

This could not only be a pretty decent PR stunt, but a nice excuse for blocking the competition off as well. :)

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