Australian broadband users have become unknowing combatants in the war between spammers and spam black-list operators.
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Osirusoft, one of the largest anti-spam black-lists, has been shut down by its operator following a barrage of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that have crippled the service.
An IP address belonging to a Telstra BigPond e-mail server has been black-banned by the RealTime Blackhole List (RBL), an anti-spam system, after it was branded "a constant source of spam".
According to operators of spam-filtering lists, an alarming number of people are unwittingly helping junk mailers shuttle spam, or unsolicited bulk e-mail.
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