Hi, Thank you for telling me.
Unfortunately, Spews and OSIRUS (they use Spews' list, so essentially the same applies) have listed many ISPs in Hong Kong and around Asia, meaning many of us over here are blocked from sending emails to the USA if a company uses Spews. That is why we suggest that businesses use ORDB (http://www.ordb.com) as it blocks most spam, but ONLY blocks spam and very rarely legitimate emails (we use this list for our personal emails too). Spews is supposedly "early warning", hence if the owner of Spews "thinks" there "may" be spam coming from a certain place, they block if off first, whether or not spam will really come through there or not. ORDB, on the other hand, uses automated testing to block mail servers, rather than rely on the decision of one or two unaccountable people with their own ideas. Telstra in Australia, PCCW (Pacific Century Cyberworks/ Hong Kong Telecom), Singtel, and others in Asia have many netblocks listed in Spews. Sprint is also has large chunks of netblocks blocked. We used it before and had too much legitimate business email blocked. So, again, thanks for telling me, but there is little I can do to unblock Asian ISPs. Spews is unaccountable to anyone and no one can contact them (which they say on their website). They have banged heads with many ISPs in Asia... maybe the owner of Spews is "overly patriotic" to the USA to the point of being racist (but I'll leave that discussion there). Sincerely, Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliver Andrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 8:52 AM Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: *****SPAM***** Re: unstable is "unstable"; stable is "outdated"] Hi, may be it is of interest to you, that the mailservers of your provider are in a anti-spam list. If not, just delete this mail. Discovered it, when my spamassassin caugth your email. Best regards, Oliver -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Oliver Andrich | Tel.: 0261-5009075 IT Projektmanagement, | Mobil: 0172-6538591 Systemprogrammierung und -design | Fax: 069-13305990076 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Fingerpring: 2AB5 B998 8BD2 AC3A E12A 3A8A 171E 5B1B EC4B 3C2B -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---