The Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) was an anonymous service that maintained a list of
IP address
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ranges belonging to
internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides a myriad of services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, no ...
s (ISPs) that host spammers and show little action to prevent their abuse of other
network
Network, networking and networked may refer to:
Science and technology
* Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects
* Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks
Mathematics
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s' resources. It could be used by
Internet sites as an additional source of information about the senders of unsolicited bulk email, better known as
spam
Spam most often refers to:
* Spam (food), a consumer brand product of canned processed pork of the Hormel Foods Corporation
* Spamming, unsolicited or undesired electronic messages
** Email spam, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages
...
.
The SPEWS database has not been updated since August 24, 2006; dnsbl.com lists its status as dead. A successor, the Anonymous Postmaster Early Warning System (APEWS), appeared in January 2007,
APEWS announcement of SPEWS replacement
/ref> using similar listing criteria and a nearly identical web page.
See also
* News.admin.net-abuse.email
news.admin.net-abuse.email (sometimes abbreviated nanae or n.a.n-a.e, and often incorrectly spelled with a hyphen in "email") is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to discussion of the abuse of email systems, specifically through E-mail spam, email spam ...
(NANAE)
References
External links
* {{webarchive , url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20021202232152/http%3A//www%2Espews%2Eorg/ , title=SPEWS.org , date=2002-12-02 (Last good archive. Domain is now owned by another entity.)
APEWS.org
Spamming
Early warning systems
Internet properties disestablished in 2007
History of the Internet