Talk:Anonymous Postmaster Early Warning System

POV issues

APEWS lists at present approximately 40 percent of routable IPV4 address space, including, for instance, 12.0.0.0/9 (AS7018 AT&T WorldNet Services), rendering it useless in a production environment for simple blocking (accept/reject).

This statement seems to be inherently POV. However, I can't seem to find any pro-APEWS (or even neutral) sources on the internet to balance this out. I've seen various figures as to what percentage of IPv4 address space is blocked by APEWS, like 38%, 42%, half, one-third, etc, and no doubt this has changed over time, but I have yet to see an unbiased report on this. Given that spam comprises >90% of all e-mail sent, perhaps it is not unreasonable to block such a large amount of address space. Also what exactly is a "production environment"? Is that a business-speak term for a mission-critical environment where not a single false positive would be acceptable?

Obviously enough mail admins are using APEWS that the damage is considerable when someone's mail server ends up in listed IP address space, but apparently most of those that use the list are keeping quiet about it.

I would like to improve this article, but the information out there about APEWS seems to be scanty and biased. Deepmath (talk) 06:22, 16 March 2008 (UTC)