I cleaned two blocks last year with Spamhaus and others. Took me less than two 
weeks and Spamhaus were the quickest of the bunch (we're talking about a full 
or two business days). PSN can be tricky, same for Netflix and whatnot but I 
always put these new blocks in "quarantine" for a couple of weeks by using 
these services with random IPs in a new block.

In order, I began to announce the prefixes right after the transfers were 
approved by ARIN. I then contacted Spamhaus and the others roughly a week 
later. As I mentioned, Spamhaus were really reactive. The others responded in 
about 2 weeks.
What helped us (I think) is that we're a listed MANRS participant (so 
filtering, BCP38, proper NOC/Ops contacts). We also sign all of our routes with 
ROAs, proper route objects in an IRR and PTRs generated for every IPs.
On Apr 3 2019, at 1:20 pm, Nikolas Geyer <n...@neko.id.au> wrote:
> A big +1 to checking Spamhaus, specifically their DROP and EDROP lists. These 
> two lists are what causes us most pain when acquiring IPv4 space as a lot of 
> providers put auto blocking in place based on these two which can be 
> difficult to get removed.
>
> I won’t even contemplate prefixes on either of these lists unless the seller 
> knocks $5/IP off the purchase price because of the associated time and pain 
> trying to clean it up.
> Sent from my iPhone
> > On Apr 3, 2019, at 11:49 AM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> 
> > wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:20:17 -0000, "Torres, Matt via NANOG" said:
> > > 3. Check SORBS blacklisting. It should not show up except maybe the DUHL 
> > > list(?). If it does, walk away.
> > SORBS isn't the only place to check. As an example, if Spamhaus doesn't have
> > nice things to say about the block, it's time to start asking questions....
> >
> > http://www.anti-abuse.org/multi-rbl-check/ has a fairly good list of
> > places that could give your customer a bad time (whether or not the
> > listing is deserved - the point is that being listed anywhere there will
> > probably mean problems that have to be cleaned up)
> >
> > You may all now begin the religious war over where else to check.

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