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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."

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  1. Ouch! by StarHeart · · Score: -1, Redundant

    That would hurt.

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    Havoc Penington, the bane of my Linux desktop.
  2. this topic is already obsolete. by motherhead · · Score: 2, Redundant

    dear lord... must be an international date line or something.

    Optusnet.com.au, reports they have shut down the dynamic-DNS spam service run by the Dean Westbury gang on their network.

    In response, the SPEWS listed network addresses were removed from the list.

    Updated listing for Dean Westbury: http://spews.org/html/S453.html

  3. Seems to be fixed already by BlowCat · · Score: 3, Redundant
    From http://spews.org/news.html :
    [29/Sep/01] OptusNet listing removed
    Optusnet.com.au, reports they have shut down the dynamic-DNS spam service run by the Dean Westbury gang on their network. In response, the SPEWS listed network addresses were removed from the list.