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Spamhaus
Spamhaus is an international non-profit
organization whose mission is to track the Internet's Spam Gangs, to
provide dependable real-time anti-spam protection for Internet
networks, to work with Law Enforcement Agencies to identify and
pursue spammers worldwide, and to lobby governments for effective
anti-spam legislation.
Founded
in 1998, Spamhaus is based in the UK and is run by a dedicated team
of 18 volunteer investigators located around the world.
Spamhaus publishes the Register Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) - a
database collating information and evidence on the 200 worst spam
gangs worldwide, used by ISPs to avoid signing up known spammers,
and by Law Enforcement Agencies to help target and mount
prosecutions against spam gangs.
To
protect networks and email users, Spamhaus publishes two
spam-blocking databases - the Spamhaus Block List (SBL) and the
Expolits Block List (XBL). Broadcast from a network of 32 servers in
12 countries, the Spamhaus block lists are now used by many of the
Internet's major Internet Service Providers, Corporations,
Universities, Government and Military networks, and currently
protect the mailboxes of 260 Million Internet users.
Funding for
operations is through sponsors and donations. Funds for hardware and
bandwidth are raised from subscriptions to a block list
synchronization service ('Data Feed') supplied hourly to large
Internet networks.
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