How do I contact a blocklist maintainer to get removed from their blocklist?
A. Most blocklisting systems have an associated web site with instructions on how one might go about contacting them to get ones self de-listed. We suggest you check there. One notable exception to this is SPEWS. There is no known way to contact SPEWS directly. Instead, the SPEWS FAQ directs readers to the Usenet newsgroups news.admin.net-abuse.blocklisting and news.admin.net-abuse.email. But note carefully the wording! The reader is directed to these newsgroups for discussion. There is no promise that posting to them will necessarily result in SPEWS changing its listings. Above all, keep this in mind: SPEWS’ FAQ directing you to these newsgroups does not mean SPEWS will communicate with you in them. Even if it does, it’s almost a certainty it will do so anonymously–not identifying itself *as* SPEWS. Naturally, one should make sure the reason for which they found themselves blocklisted has been resolved before requesting to be removed. In any event, one should not rely on posting to N
