Re: [vps-mail] Dramatic increase of SPAM during last days

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 May 2004 17:39:52 -0000, "Ben Lanford" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> (I think I also quit using Spews as well ... but didn't that one shut down
> as a result of being DoS'ed?

Nope.

Idiot spammers DDoS'ed the website, but the DNSBL mirrors weren't impeded in
any way at all.

monkeys.com and osirusoft.com /did/ close down after being DDoS'es to
oblivion by disgruntled spammers. Later on, Eric stopped maintaining the
easynet.nl DNSBLs simply because he was too tired.

> I see that their http URL now redirects to sorbs.net)

Huh???

http://www.spews.org doesn't redirect anywhere.

However, SORBS is one of the mirrors for the DNSBLs:
l1.spews.dnsbl.sorbs.net and l2.spews.dnsbl.sorbs.net

> I find that most dnsbl's aren't aggressive enough ... so I use several. 

Agreed. That's why I run my own as well as using several public ones.

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