[66064] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme spam testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Dec 22 20:57:37 2003
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:43:59 -0500
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
Cc: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0312221923380.84511-100000@thunder.xecu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Andy Dills writes on 12/22/2003 7:33 PM:
> Oh, sure have. Spews has listed an entire /19 of ours before, merely
> because of a multi-stage relay (customer had an open relay configured to
> dump everything to our mailserver).
As far as I have seen, that is not the typical reason for a spews nom.
Spews seems to target a fairly similar crowd to what (say) the SBL
targets, but uses a rather wider brush.
To forestall further discussion on this, I'd suggest reading
http://www.scconsult.com/bill/dnsblhelp.html - especially
http://www.scconsult.com/bill/dnsblhelp.html#4-20
srs
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