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[Tarus Balog <tarus AT opennms.org>]

On Mar 17, 2004, at 6:05 PM, Steven Champeon wrote:

> on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:01:28PM -0500, Scott Lundgren wrote:
>
> 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.

That's a little too harsh. I use Rackspace, and they rule as a  
provider. They do dedicated hosting, so you are free to put whatever  
O/S you want on your server, and configure it as you please.

They have strict rules regarding such things as spam, and they are  
quick to shut down anyone who violates that policy.

What then? There is an IP address out there that will need to get  
reused at some point. SPEWS is like torch wielding villagers, and I  
think the "too dumb or too slow" remark applies more to people who use  
them. In my case, SPEWS blacklisted a whole block of Rackspace  
addresses, including mine. Rackspace was very helpful at getting me  
another address to use, but it doesn't solve the problem of seemingly  
random and arbitrary blacklistings.

-T
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