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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by subway on Friday December 30, 2011 @01:59PM (#3408666)
This doesn't sound right. Since when does Spamhaus police site content? I'm pretty sure they primarily go after folks sending out spam email, not after websites containing spammy pages.
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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by elliottcarlson on Friday December 30, 2011 @02:17PM (#3408730)
They also go after places that enable spammers - such as when they blocked Google Docs [1]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Spamhaus-We-Blocked-Google-Do...

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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by whortleberry on Friday December 30, 2011 @08:31PM (#3409805)
They added Google Doc ip addresses to their RBL, so that SMTP traffic from those IPs would be blocked by those who chose to run Spamhaus' blacklist.
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Re:Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A M... by Vivtek on Friday December 30, 2011 @05:40PM (#3409399)
They do list spamvertised domains. It is incredibly irresponsible to yank a domain on that basis alone. Bluehost is at fault here.
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