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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. SPEWS isn't a firm by kaarlov · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SPEWS is not a "anti-spam firm". Check their website at http://spews.org/ for more explanation. And anyone too conserned about false positives should do their due dilligence when picking the DNSBLs they use and notice that SPEWS blocks fairly large netblocks. And there probably will be a lot of legitimate mail sent from bad neighborhoods. SPEWS is a very good tool for blocking spam and educating ignorant ISPs, but it's not suited for everyone.