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Steve Linford SpamHaus.org (Spamhaus Project) to acquire SPEWS blacklist and adopt the SPEWS technology platform and non removal policy.

Combined Company to blacklist up to 20% of Internet IP space from which offending companies will not be removed.

London. - August 11, 2006. Steve Linford AKA Spamhaus, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the SPEWS Blacklist and its technology in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $5.4 million.

The combination of Spamhaus and SPEWS will provide customers a more powerful set of solutions for blacklisting and punishing Spammers and SPAM friendly hosting companies by listing the IPs in a common black list with no ability for removal. I am tired of chasing these spammers and playing the Wack-a-Mole game with them, as soon as I shut their site down it is up again on another hosting company.

From now on offending companies that support spammers or email marketers in any way shape or form will be blacklisted and will have no chance of removal as both a corporate Identity and the IPs themselves. Basically they will have to throw away the imprisoned IPs and change their corporate identity to do business on the Internet. We also will be including Blog Spam in our area of authority and blacklisting Blog providers and bloggers that do not meet our standards. We feel that compelling internet users to create content and experiences across multiple operating systems, devices and media with set standards is in the best interest of all Internet users. Together, the two companies will meet a wider set of customer needs and have a significantly greater opportunity to grow into new markets, Regretfully there will always be a small amount of "Collateral Damage" to innocent users that happen to be on the same IP space as a spammer or outlaw content website, however we feel that this is an expectable inconvenience for users considering the greater good of removing spam from the Internet.

Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, which has been approved by both boards of directors, Spamhaus stockholders will receive, at a fixed exchange ratio, 0.69 shares of SPEWS stock for every share of Spamhaus stock in a tax-free exchange.

In the combined company, Steve Linford will continue as chief executive officer and John Reid will remain president and chief operating officer.

Both Spamhaus and SPEWS are passionate about creating and enabling Blacklists that will once and for all curb the growing Spam problem by blocking or "Imprisoning" large blocks of Internet IP space from which there will be no parole and completely blocking internet traffic from specific countries that the are the source of 90% of Internet Spam IE, Russia and China and the Netherlands.

Our combined teams and small army of Internet anti-spam watch dog volunteers will be a powerful force for policing Internet content and forcing hosts to shut down sites that are linked to spam, owned by spammers or promote email marketing in anyway. We are the world leader in Blacklist innovation based around cutting-edge platforms for delivering blacklist feeds, content and applications." This acquisition will give Spamhaus the power to shut down any website no matter where it is located in the world by giving internet hosting providers and bandwidth providers a choice to comply with our policies or to go out of business.

The two companies are developing integration plans that build on the cultural similarities and the best business and product development practices from each company.

Steve Linford
Spamhaus Project.