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	What is SPEWS?
		When the warned ISP/host continues to host the spammer, SPEWS escalates the listings, covering more and more of their netspace, eventually often listing space occupied by users (often referred to as "innocent") who never had anything to do with spam.
		No warning, no listwash (removing the spammed address from the spammers' list), no moving the spammer, renaming them, anything at all, just shut them down, then charge a fee for the termination and cleanup, and THEN tell the spammer ("Good afternoon, you're busted!").
		Systems that want to be protected by SPEWS need to read the SPEWS FAQ, do some setup to use their zone files.
	www.seige-perilous.org /spam/spam-SPEWS.html (5061 words)

	Spam Prevention Early Warning System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) is an anonymous service which maintains a list of IP address ranges belonging to Internet service providers (ISPs) which host spammers and show little action to prevent their abuse of other network's resources.
		The precise process by which SPEWS gathers data about spam sources is unknown to the public, and it is likely that its operators use multiple techniques.
		SPEWS criteria is based on "spam support"; That means that when a network operation provides any services to the identified spammers, the resources involved are listed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spam_Prevention_Early_Warning_System (1217 words)

	Spam case warning - theage.com.au
		Spam is unsolicited bulk emails sent directly to a net user's email address and which can cost a user valuable internet time - and therefore charges - as they retrieve each one.
		It is difficult to trace the senders of spam and to ask them to remove email details.
		Annoyed at being swamped by spam, Perth man Joseph McNicol posted the details of a Perth-based marketing company on a website, so users also angry at receiving spam could complain to the company.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/06/04/1022982694284.html (504 words)

	SPEWS.ORG - the internet's Spam Prevention Early Warning System. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SPEWS is a list of areas on the Internet which several system administrators, ISP postmasters, and other service providers have assembled and use to deny email and in some cases, all network traffic from.
		SPEWS also found that several of the several popular spam advisory and blocking systems have become bogged down due to an overload of requests, this lessens their effectiveness.
		Since many of these systems are free to use, ISPs should jump at the chance to provide better service for their users, not to mention saving themselves money by not having to process and store the spam.
	spews.org (659 words)

	Anti Spam Topics
		Developments towards a standardized spam report that is easy to learn, easy to read, is extensible, degrades gracefully, and is subject to automation.
		Prevention first: see our tips on how to stay off junk email lists, because getting your address removed is far more difficult.
		It is not performing off-site operations not near an alleged spam source without the local field crew of William Kronert, Jeff Mackey, George Crissman, John Oliver (not seated), and Bill Carton.
	www.spamblocked.com /strads/spam (807 words)

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		Trust that the system and network operators are functioning in the spirit that is the Internet, a "network of networks" that works when each operator co-operates with their fellow operators.
		The design goal of the system is to have as few changes in listing status as possible, while reflecting the true state of the trust level of that IP address.
		For each spam coming in from a given IP address, there is a pulse that is presented to a diode-isolated integrator, one for each IP address.
	www.satchell.net /spews-model.html (2029 words)

	Eye on Spam, Part 1: Unbeatable Scum?
		Only in the spam wars, the anti-spam gazelles have a little problem: The cheetahs seem to be winning.
		Though these numbers are notoriously difficult to calculate, every survey and ISP record points to dramatic increases in spam, sometimes as much as 300 percent year over year.
		Spam filters tend to block some legitimate email along with the intruders, an uncomfortable compromise for anyone who relies on email for personal or business reasons.
	www.clickz.com /showPage.html?page=978881 (1026 words)

	The spam Lists Network - Bringing order to the Internet
		According to their site, SPEWS (Spam Prevention Early Warning System) is a list of areas on the Internet which several system administrators, ISP postmasters, and other service providers have assembled and use to deny email and in some cases, all network traffic from.
		The definition of spam messages is not clear and is not consistent across different individuals or organizations.
		Their report on spam sources offers a comprehensive look at how spam happens and some prudent defenses to address spam.
	spam.lists.net (1764 words)

	Im Guilty Until Proven Innocent - Spam-Blocker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Anti spam software is designed to protect your inbox from unwanted messages, but unless your system is properly trained even the best software misses the mark and flags legitimate messages as spam.
		Bayesian spam filters are intelligent in so far as they're capable of comparing two sets of information and acting on the result.
		The nice thing about this system is that Brenda hasn't had to go anywhere else to register the email address 'Amazon@wyattemail.net', 123-reg just sees the wyattemail.net part and sends it on for her.
	www.docsdownloads.com /spam/33982.php (1932 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Blacklists vs. Spam
		But harried system administrators, desperate to prevent spam from crippling their networks, are more supportive of fllists.
		They're the ones who hear the complaints when their customers are buried in spam, and it's their budgets that are tapped to foot the bill for the extra bandwidth and computer space needed to house reams of unwanted e-mail.
		The spam problem is so bad that every network administrator uses some sort of fllist to sort good e-mail from bad, according to Nate Shue, a senior network engineer at Vienna, Va.-based software firm Industrial Medium LLC.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A53496-2003May14?language=printer (1292 words)

	The plague - smh.com.au
		Microsoft's ninemsn recently teamed up with spam filtering company Brightmail to reduce the amount of spam reaching the 110 million Hotmail accounts worldwide, including the 3.85 million Australian users, by the end of next month.
		In its Interim Report, The Spam Problem and How it can be countered, NOIE says most spam is advertising porn or money-making schemes, and emanates primarily from the United States closely followed by Australia.
		NOIE is examining three proposals: an outright ban of spam, legislation requiring spam to be transparent, similar to the US, and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission's submission to make it an offence to send emails that break existing Comonwealth law.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/10/11/1034222584907.html (765 words)

	Spam Filtering - SiteMadeEasy PlusMail WebControl Panel
		In addition to the fllist filtering, spam filtering will also reject any e-mail coming from a source IP that does not have a valid PTR (reverse DNS) record.
		This may cause legitimate mail to be marked as spam (false positive).
		Since much spam comes from either open relays or badly configured hosts, this can be an effective way to block spam (as well as promote use of Internet standards).
	www.hostingmanual.net /plusmail/spamfilter.shtml (371 words)

	mobileStorm Inc Stun! \| Email Marketing Solutions \| Fax Broadcasting Service \| Permission Based E-Mail \| SMS Marketing ...
		Spamming is the practice of sending unsolicited information to either a single user or in a mass scale via email.
		Spam complaint received -- Based on the severity (such as a spam trap) as well as volume of complaints, we will assess the situation and notify the client as to the violations.
		These may contain spam trap seed addresses.Have a minimal number of generic addresses (such as info@, support@, sales@) These are typically harvested addresses and will alert mobileStorm that your list may have been bought.
	www.stun1.com /policy-anti-spam.php (745 words)

	Web Host Industry News \| TeleWest Blacklisted for Spamming
		Analysts say that with the increased sophistication of spam filters, spammers are using methods typically employed by virus writers, hijacking machines with malicious code and using them as proxies.
		Spam filters are incapable of checking whether these machines are all legitimate or not.
		The SPEWS system, used by a range of Internet service providers and spam filters, checks the sender field of each email and blocks it if it comes from an email address known to be sending spam.
	www.thewhir.com /marketwatch/tel051105.cfm (445 words)

	National Spam Mail Abuse Association
		The Spam Fighting Community is under Attack from Spammers for most of the summer.
		The first of the European countries to implement the EU Anti-Spam Directive banning the sending of Unsolicited Bulk Email (the rest of Europe is implementing the law by 31 October), Italy has implemented the EU E-Privacy Directive 2002/58/EC ahead of the prescribed October 2003 deadline.
		Spam is more prolific than it was a year ago and could destroy the Email system as we know it.
	www.natsma.com /index.html (585 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Spam blacklist targets Telewest
		The Spam Prevention Early Warning System fllisted the addresses because many of the machines using them have been hijacked by spammers.
		The fllists produced by the Spam Prevention Early Warning System (Spews) are used by many organisations as a way to filter e-mail.
		Blacklists were a very blunt tool to tackle the problem of zombie computers, said Matt Peachey, European director of Ironport software which monitors net addresses to spot which ones have been hijacked by spammers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/4528927.stm (574 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Internet: Abuse: Spam: Blacklists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Anyone sending SPAM into their mail filters is automatically added for a period of thirty days.
		Mail Abuse Prevention System - MAPS aims to defend the Internet from spammers by educating ISPs and providing real time blocking lists of known spam sources.
		Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) - SPEWS maintains a list of known spam sources and spam friendly hosts so that e-mail can be rejected from these problem sites.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Blacklists (786 words)

	Spam: The last crusade - TechUpdate - ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The idea being, organizations wishing to reduce spam need only subscribe to these lists, and configure their mail servers not to accept any mail from the IP addresses listed.
		Anti-spam vigilantes view spam as evil, therefore everything they do to combat spam is good.
		Or treat spam prevention as a real job, not a crusade; do it professionally, openly, and most of all, fairly--you could even make some money that way.
	techupdate.zdnet.com /techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2873539,00.html (764 words)

	Spam block lists bombed to oblivion
		The “zombie army” is being marshaled by mysterious opponents of anti-spam forces who use virus-infected e-mail and hacking techniques to take control of machines from unknowing users, most of whom haven’t taken the precaution of installing firewalls or anti-virus software to protect them from intruders.
		Haight, who said that SpamCop was knocked offline periodically in the early days of the attack in mid-July, said it will cost about $30,000 this year to pay for a content distribution network capable of withstanding such assaults.
		But the longtime spam fighter said he bears more of a grudge against big ISPs like ATandT and UUNet, because they are in a better position to halt the attacks.
	research.lifeboat.com /spam2.htm (1753 words)

	Anti-SPAM
		SPAM is a registered trademark of Hormel Foods.
		From the Trenches: One ISPs Response to the Problem of Spam - a paper by Nick Christenson and Dan Farmer.
		The relay checks are complicated by the fact that we have several thousand secondary MX records pointing at our machines, many not under our control, so the usual list of permitted relay domains would be a maintanence nightmare.
	www.object-craft.com.au /~andrewm/links/spam.html (418 words)

	Australian firm sues over spam complaint \| CNET News.com
		While several fllisted companies have struck back with lawsuits against anti-spam groups, this is apparently the first time an individual has been sued for complaining about alleged spam.
		T3 is seeking loss and damages for replacing blocked or compromised IP numbers, labor costs of technicians to establish an alternative e-mail system, the purchase of a new server computer, and loss of income it claims to have incurred over a 20-day waiting period for a new Internet connection to be installed.
		Jeremy Malcolm, an independent Perth-based solicitor who specializes in IT law and is representing McNichol, said he wouldn't be putting in a defense straight away and would be applying for a summary judgment in the hopes of not having to go to trial.
	news.com.com /2100-1023-929761.html (532 words)

	The SpamBouncer: Blocklists
		IP ranges that belong to ISPs that ignore spam complaints or fail to remove spammers from their systems within a reasonable period of time.
		It is an "early warning system" blocklist, prone to false positives, but also frequently containing spamming IPs that have not made it into the more conservative blocklists yet.
		The Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) blocklist is an anomaly among blocklists supported by the SpamBouncer.
	www.spambouncer.org /reference/blocklists.shtml (4093 words)

	No Spam Policy - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) @ DomainAvenue.com \| Domain Name Registration and Web Hosting on ...
		SPEWS is a list of areas on the Internet which system administrators, ISP postmasters, and other service providers have assembled and use to deny email and in some cases, all network traffic from.
		Please understand that this spam filtering is a service by default and you will need to specifically ask us to remove this for you if you do not like it.
		If we receive complaints about spamming, we will redirect the site and email boxes associated with the domain name in question for a period of no less than 2 days.
	www.domainavenue.com /faq_no_spam.htm (758 words)

	Nobody Expects the Spamish Inquisition
		One of his South Florida clients was sued by a law firm in Utah, claiming the firm was sending spam under a new law passed in the state.
		The Utah law calls for damages of $10 to $50 to a spam recipient, but the law firm contacted Bates' client and threatened a class action suit unless the e-mailer settled for $6,500.
		An e-mail to Felstein from Ben Butler in the "Spam and Abuse Department" of GoDaddy Software dated April 24 said: "As I am sure you are aware, we have a no-tolerance policy against spam and network abuse.
	www.dotcomeon.com /spamish_inquisition.html (1079 words)

	Black List Lookup - Postini Reseller - Spam Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The RSS is a list of email relays which have been used to send spam, for use in blocking spam by blocking mail which have gone through those sites.
		Spam blocking fllist of open relays, dial-ups, and direct spam sources.
		Includes table with the name of the fllists, their lookup domains, the IP that is returned in case of a match and a description.
	www.spamportal.com /resources/black_list_lookup.html (818 words)

	Spam fighter may face trial after junk-mail company hit - smh.com.au
		A judge has reserved his decision on whether a "fearless spam fighter" should face trial for disrupting the $1,000-a-day business of a company which sends junk email, or "spam".
		The West Australian District Court was told today the IP numbers were noted by a not-for-profit group called SPEWS - Spam Prevention Early Warning System - which blocks emails from getting to addresses on the internet.
		T3 alleges Mr McNicol, described in court as a self-styled "fearless spam fighter", told SPEWS that t3 was spamming - which caused SPEWS to block the company's emails.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/23/1032734110915.html (423 words)

	IHETS network security
		Want or need to learn more about how you can prevent unwanted spam (unsolicited bulk e-mail) and open mail relays (which occur when a mail server processes a mail message where neither the sender nor the recipient is a local user)?
		By accessing this list, system administrators are allowed to choose to accept or deny e-mail exchange with servers at these addresses.
		SPEWS is a list of areas on the Internet which system administrators, ISP postmasters, and other service providers have assembled and use to deny e-mail and, in some cases, all network traffic from.
	www.ihets.org /progserv/networking/security/Spam.html (191 words)

	Spam-blocking lists under siege
		Guilmette said Friday that the attack by “at least 3,000 computers” has increased in volume to the point where he may have to shut down his blocklist of unsecured proxy servers, which are commonly used by spammers to disguise the source of bulk e-mail.
		Jared, who drew considerable heat from network administrators who had to scramble to reconfigure their mail servers, said he would have liked to give users of his free service a heads up, but wasn’t able to under the circumstances.
		But given the increasing scale of the attacks, Guilmette of Monkeys.com warns that even resilient services like Spamhaus and SpamCop are in the cyberspace equivalent of a nuclear arms race.
	research.lifeboat.com /spam.htm (1580 words)

	Syd Allan: SPAM
		That "opt-out" reply is used to prove that the email address is valid, and actively used, and that the recipient actually reads the emails that are sent to them, and then the email address is sold to dozens (or hundreds) of other spammers as a "verified" address.
		Most corporations which authorize their marketing departments to send SPAM seem to have no idea how much they can damage their reputation among the general public, and how easy it would be for members of the public to attack them electronically.
		Many people are already tired of the phone calls and junk mail that they receive from their vendors, and it is likely that a lot of them will not look kindly on receiving unsolicited commercial email as well.
	www.jagular.com /spam (3028 words)

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