The short story on Spews
Spews is a blacklist of IPs that can be used to filter spam. Most spam filtering solutions abide by the principle of "first, do no harm", but Spews does not.
In fact, just the opposite: the Spews administrators consider it a positive good to block as much non-spam email as possible from customers of ISPs that the anonymous Spews maintainers dislike. Essentially it is a boycott of ISPs that Spews consider to be soft on spam. The definition of who will be listed is pretty vague and elastic, and sometimes sites are added in error. I support their right to publish their opinion, even though I think it's silly.
So the short story on Spews is this: if you want to block legitimate email so as to participate in a boycott, use Spews. If you want to discard mail addressed to you from friends, family and colleagues, use Spews. If you don't, don't.
More on this from LaneChange.net.
posted Fri 23 Jan 2004 in /issues/spam/spews | link
Best description of Spews ever
From Slashdot:
SPEWS only gives advice, which anyone who runs a router is free to use or not use as they see fit.
If you think they list too many netblocks, try using another list, or no list at all.
Bullshit.
This argument only works if you're 10 years old, and start kicking, and blame anyone who walks into your foot for it.
posted Wed 21 Jan 2004 in /issues/spam/spews | link
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