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Spam Blacklist Targets Hijacked Telewest Customers

Posted by timothy on from the spammers-should-be-hung-by-their-thumbs dept.

davidmcg writes "BBC.co.uk reports that UK cable firm Telewest has had almost one million email address blacklisted by an anti-spam firm. The Spam Prevention Early Warning System blacklisted the email addresses because a large number of the machines using them have been hijacked by spammers. Telewest have stated that they knew about the problem and have been working with customers to regain control of their machines."

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  1. Email Addresses? by Underholdning · · Score: 5, Informative

    Spews doesn't block email addresses. As a matter of fact, they don't block anything. Spews is a database of IP addresses.

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  2. Should point out.... by Tehrasha · · Score: 5, Informative
    ..that no email addresses have been blacklisted.

    Telewest has had almost one million email address blacklisted by an anti-spam firm.

    SPEWS does not block email addresses, it lists IP addresses. Its up to admins who use SPEWS to decide whether or not to use the listing to block email coming from those IPs.

    If the users in those affected IPs use a legitimate email server, they can still send email to their hearts content. Only people running their own mail servers and direct-to-mx traffic would be affected.