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

["Ben Lanford" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: 
 
> 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. 
 
Oops! (My bad). I looked again at the URL I followed and see that the "spews" 
was a subdomain of the sorbs.net second-level domain. 
 
> 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 
 
That explains my confusion noted above... 
 
>  
> > 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. 
 
Judging from your e-mail address, I gather that you are responsible (at least 
in part) for the spamcop dnsbl. Thanks! (You are doing the Internet a great 
service!) 
 
--  
Bennett Lanford 
ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
 
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