Anonymous Postmaster Early Warning System
The Anonymous Postmaster Early Warning System (APEWS) is an anonymous service that maintains a list of IP address ranges and domain names belonging to internet service providers (ISPs) that host spammers and fail to prevent their abuse of other networks' resources.
According to the only public forum communication ever released by APEWS, the service was founded by people who observed that the Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) was inactive, no longer maintained, and possibly dead. Unlike SPEWS, APEWS operates two blacklists: a Right-Hand Side Blacklist (RHSBL) that lists domains as well as a Domain Name System Blacklist (DNSBL) that lists IP address ranges.[1]
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APEWS.ORG is a dispicable outfit that targets entire blocks of ip addresses even if only one ip address in that block is known to have sent SPAM. All the other ip addresses in the block may be good people who run respectible servers but are blacklisted anyway due to this blanket approach at SPAM Control. Hopefully, they will be sued out of existance or laws put in place to prevent this type of overzealous behavior. There is no recourse to have one's ip address removed from the database either. These people are as bad as the SPAMMERS themselves.
References
- ^ APEWS first and only announcement of existence (2007-01-12).
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