Editing Spam Prevention Early Warning System

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The '''Spam Prevention Early Warning System''' ('''SPEWS''') was an anonymous service that maintained a list of [[IP address]] ranges belonging to [[internet service provider]]s (ISPs) that host spammers and show little action to prevent their abuse of other [[computer networking|network]]s' resources. It could be used by [[Internet site]]s as an additional source of information about the senders of unsolicited bulk email, better known as [[spam (electronic)|spam]].

The SPEWS database has not been updated since August 24, 2006; dnsbl.com lists its status as dead.<ref>[http://www.dnsbl.com/2007/01/spews-current-status.html DNSBL lists SPEWS database status as dead]</ref> A successor, the '''Anonymous Postmaster Early Warning System''' '''(APEWS)''', appeared in January 2007,<ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting/msg/b3da24209d8d5319 APEWS announcement of SPEWS replacement]</ref> using similar listing criteria and a nearly identical web page.

==See also==
* [[News.admin.net-abuse.email]] (NANAE)

==References==
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== 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.)
* [http://www.apews.org/ APEWS.org]

[[Category:Spamming]]
[[Category:Early warning systems]]
[[Category:Internet properties disestablished in 2007]]
[[Category:History of the Internet]]