Spamhaus

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  spamhaus spam'hows n. Pejorative term for an internet service provider
     that permits or even encourages {spam} mailings from its systems. The
     plural is `spamhausen'. There is a web page devoted to tracking
     spamhausen (http://www.spamhaus.org).
  
     The most notorious of the spamhausen was Sanford Wallace's Cyber


     Promotions Inc., shut down by a lawsuit on 16 October 1997. The
     anniversary of the shutdown is celebrated on Usenet as Spam Freedom Day,
     but lesser imitators of the Spamford still infest various murky corners
     of the net. Since prosecution of spammers became routine under the
     junk-fax laws and statues specifically targeting spam, spamhausen have
     declined in relative importance; today, hit-and-run attacks by spammers
     using {relay rape} and {throwaway account}s on reputable ISPs seem to
     account for most of the flow.