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23 APR 2010 We had to order an Privacy Service to get our DNS restored.
A word to Spamtard: Fuck you little rat.

21 APR 2010 You can still rsync data by substituting the domain for the IP address as follows;
rsync -avz 208.83.212.43::APEWS/l2.apews.org followed by your directory destination for the zone files, L1 domain list similarly

17 JAN 2010 Apews has several months now of being consistently below 0.5% False Positive error rate or less. In commercial usage terms, less than 1% is often regarded as a benchmark for a serious and usable list which we clearly are. True positives are between 90% and 98% according to our user base. Much will depend on your particular mail stream. Note, these results are out of the box, that is before any white listing or filtering. As we recommend, if you use your whitelist ahead of this DNSBL, your results will be even better. Anywhere you see folks stating otherwise is just a sign of our system being effective, spammers hurting and their wishful thinking.

06 APR 2009 APEWS was offline during the weekend because of a server outage. The power has since been restored.

03 DEC 2008 Rumor goes that APEWS would no longer be maintained. That is not true. We merely experienced some temporary techical issues.

19 FEB 2008 We have found many trolls (most in NANAE) talking crap about us. It is bullshit to claim that we couldn't be used for blocking. Many people do it. Test our lists yourself instead. You will find the result amazing.

22 SEP 2007 A failure in our database updater left our zones frozen for 20 days. Thanks to John G. from NANAE for bringing this to our attention.

30 AUG 2007 The operator of our beloved SPEWS got hit by a truck 1 year ago and died 30th August 2006.
We have chosen to make the 30th August SPEWS Memorial day.
To annoy spammers and spamsupporters we recommend to shutdown all mailservers every 30th August for 24 hours.

16 AUG 2007 We have asked our former mirrors to wildcard the no longer valid zones so that our users become aware that they have to switch to our new zones, if they want to continue using us.
If your mail was blocked because of this we apologize but this was our only way to inform you that you need to switch zones immediatley.

13 AUG 2007 APEWS is no longer mirrored by SORBS and UCEPROTECT. Please see here how you can use our lists from now on.

29 JUL 2007 Blacklist compared says both of our lists are the most effective blocklists available, and they are FREE.

14 JUN 2007 FAQ A 41 and A 42 adjusted to make it even clearer who may and who should not post to newsgroups.

13 JUN 2007 TQMCUBE is no longer an official APEWS mirror.
Our zones at TQMCUBE are still unreachable and it seems TQMCUBE is running on AUTOPILOT.
No one has noticed a lifesign of DCH since 21st March 2007.

25 MAY 2007 APEWS was offline today because of an harddisk crash - replaced and restored from backup, no data loss.

05 MAY 2007 Blacklist compared says that our level1 is the worlds most effective RHS blocklist.

30 JAN 2007 FAQ A 21 and A 22 adjusted to make it clear that you only have best results if you use *both* Levels for blocking.

20 JAN 2007 Blacklist compared shows our level1 at position 5 and our level2 at position 30.

16 JAN 2007 We found our zones at TQMCUBE and SORBS have technical issues.
We strongly recommend to use our zones mirrored by UCEPROTECT at this time

28 DEC 2006 APEWS was built by some people thinking SPEWS is dead but their work was great. So we decided to countinue their great work and present a new up to date list in SPEWS-style, and even make it even more effective.