Anonymous Postmaster Early Warning System

Anonymous Postmaster Early Warning System

The Anonymous Postmaster Early Warning System (APEWS) is an anonymous service that maintains a list of IP address ranges (L2 list) and domain names (L1 list) belonging to internet service providers (ISPs) that the anonymous maintainers claim to be hosting spammers or failing to prevent their abuse of other networks' resources.

According to the only public forum communication ever released by APEWS, [ [http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting/msg/b3da24209d8d5319 APEWS first and only announcement of existence] (2007-01-12).] the service was founded by people who observed that the Spam Prevention Early Warning System (SPEWS) was inactive, no longer maintained, and possibly dead. The maintainers chose to copy the look and feel of the SPEWS site, but unlike SPEWS, the APEWS list follows no discernible escalation policy, and provides no documentary evidence to justify its listings. Also unlike SPEWS, APEWS operates two blacklists:
* L1 - a Right-Hand Side Blacklist (RHSBL) that lists domains
* L2 - a Domain Name System Blacklist (DNSBL) that lists IP address ranges.

External links

* [http://apews.org/ APEWS Home Site]
* [http://apews.org/?page=faq APEWS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)]
* [http://apews.org/?page=filter APEWS zone download instructions (rsync)]

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