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Re: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed Nov 12 12:54:01 2008

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:53:56 -0800
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: "Kee Hinckley" <nazgul@somewhere.com>
In-Reply-To: <02B4B914-536C-417C-B7A3-6A15894E9E21@somewhere.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com> wrote:

> After reading this, and the (Washington Post I believe--I'm away from my
> laptop right now) article on this, two things are bothering me.
>
> The article expressed a good deal of frustration with the (lack of) speed
> with which law enforcement has been tackling these issues. What wasn't
> clear was whether any attempt had been made to involve them prior to the
> shutdown.

Don't assume what you don't know. :-)

- - ferg

p.s. McColo's upstream providers are completely within their rights to
terminate connectivity if they feel that they have violated their
contractual terms of service.

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
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