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May 13, 2005
SPEWS Blacklists all of Telewest/Blueyonder
The secretive Spam Prevention Early Warning System, or SPEWS, has blacklisted all of Telewest (a UK-based broadband company, parent to Blueyonder) as of Monday. The reason? Telewest apparently has some several thousand infected PCs connected to the Internet via its service, and has shown reluctance to do anything about it.
Fortunately, for Blueyonder at least, SPEWS is not widely used, precisely because of their practice of punitive listings of recalcitrant providers.
Posted by schampeo at May 13, 2005 9:30 AM