[119452] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: APEWS.ORG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Linford)
Thu Nov 19 09:46:49 2009
In-Reply-To: <20091119100322.48babc36@greg.bestnet.kharkov.ua>
From: Steve Linford <linford@spamhaus.org>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:46:16 +0000
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On 19 Nov 2009, at 09:03, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Somebody from apews, could you please contact me off list?
> Thank you.
That's a bit like requesting contact from someone on Mars. APEWS (and
*PEWS variations) are 'home-brew DNSBLs' run by a handful of kids
from bedrooms and attics, with no clue or care. More than half the
world is listed by these tiny DNSBLs and normally nobody ever
notices, because nobody uses *PEWS lists except the odd guy running a
home mail server for him, the wife and 4 cats. You only noticed
because someone told you to go and look, right?
There is not a single ISP or production mail server anywhere in the
world using APEWS. If you're 'listed' in any *PEWS list, its having
no effect on your mail at all. Ignore it.
Steve Linford
The Spamhaus Project
http://www.spamhaus.org
