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Anti-spam list shutoff; Special report on "phishing" attacks

Mar 16, 2004 5:13PM PST
http://isc.incidents.org/diary.html?date=2004-03-15

We received notice from some folks that have been affected by the DNS-based anti-spam service shutoff from Monkeys.com. It appears they have shutoff this service after giving warning to users.

From: http://www.monkeys.com/dnsbl/

"NOTICE: All Monkeys.Com DNS anti-spam lists were shut down and discontinued on September 23rd, 2003. As of Sunday March 15th, 2004, the final shutdown phase for these lists has begun and as of now every IP address in the world has been listed on the former Monkeys.Com anti-spam lists as a final inducement to get other Internet sites to stop referring to our former anti-spam lists.

Please note that we have made all reasonable attempts to contact all of the different mail server administrators at all of the different Internet sites that have been using our anti-spam lists, and we have tried to convince them all to stop improperly making references to our former anti-spam lists, however our records indicate that despite these efforts, as of Sunday, March 14th, 2004, there are still over 1,500 different Internet sites that are still improperly referring to the various Monkeys.Com anti-spam lists. (All of these anti-spam lists were officially shut down and discontinued way back in September of 2003, and a public announcement of the shutdown was made at the time. Also, and additionally, a final end-of-life public notice was posted to various anti-spam mailing lists and newsgroups on February 10th, 2004.)"

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