In celebration of the first-ever networked email being sent 50 years ago today (!), one Spamhaus Project researcher recounts when they blocked the whole of Italy from sending email, and nobody wanted to do anything to fix it!

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from The Spamhaus Project authored by The Spamhaus Team. Read the original post at: https://www.spamhaus.org/resource-hub/dnsbl/the-day-i-blocked-a-nation-from-sending-email-and-its-unlikely-aftermath