SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @09:14PM from the but-they're-good-guys dept.

Kylow writes "Last year, Slashdot publicized our efforts at DSL Reports to pursue a group of spammers who had spammed our forums. The Slashdot community immediately pitched in to help, and the publicity wiped the sites owned by the spammers off the internet. Fast-forward to today, and the popular yet often draconian block-list SPEWS has added DSL Reports to their blocklist due to the activities of other websites hosted on NAC.net. DSL Reports users are less than happy. This is hardly the first time SPEWS has been accused of going too far."

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ADMINS: please stop using SPEWS to block... by Nijika · 2004-01-21 01:54 · Score: 1, Flamebait

As we've all seen over the past couple of years, using SPEWS as a mechanism to block spam is very dangerous . You're gonna lose legit mail if you use them, because their filters are way, way, way too broad[1]. In the case of spews, I would use them in conjunction with something like SpamAssasin to assign a score e-mails rather than outright block them.
Please, please stop using SPEWS to block!
[1] - Any time you see /16's and /12's and stuff blocked, that's way to freakin' broad.

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