[137855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Contact for APEWS.org?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Linford)
Mon Feb 21 16:20:54 2011
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From: Steve Linford <linford@spamhaus.org>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:19:08 +0000
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On 21 Feb 2011, at 21:41, Kate Gerry wrote:
> We've been advised by a client that they're incorrectly listing a /15.
APEWS is one of the many fringe hobby DNSBLs run from kids bedrooms. =
Nobody has ever heard of any network using APEWS so your client can not =
possibly be experiencing any mail issue due to any APEWS listing.
Your client has simply looked up their IP address on some advert-laden =
"check your IP against a gazillion blacklists" website which happily =
reports every IP is 'listed' somewhere without mentioning that half the =
lists it checked against are not used by anyone except the kid running =
it.
Steve Linford
The Spamhaus Project
http://www.spamhaus.org
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