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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:01:28PM -0500, Scott Lundgren wrote:
> non-geeks, skip this thread.
> 
> Apparently a spammer had set up an account on my hosting provider. The
> provider shut it down but not before my hosting provider ended up on the
> SPEWS blacklist. SPEWS didn't put just the spamming customer's domain in the
> blacklist, nay! they put my hosting providers entire IP blocks into the
> list. You can imagine I'm not thrilled. SPEWS is apparently being slow to
> react to my hosting providers efforts to be removed.
> 
> As I have read the good/bad/ugly about SPEWS here I'm hoping for sage &
> practical advice or perhaps contacts higher up at SPEWS to pass on to my
> hosting provider to get this matter resolved rather than diatrubes & rants.

You don't deal with SPEWS. SPEWS deals with you. Nobody knows who SPEWS
is, either, FWIW. Basically, you need to find another provider if they're
too dumb or too slow or too greedy to keep spammers off their network.

Who was the spammer? What's the listing? Which level are they on - one
or two?

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