[109289] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Heutte)
Fri Nov 14 12:46:35 2008
From: Fred Heutte <aoxomoxoa@sunlightdata.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:44:12 -0800
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>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.
Indeed. I also want to nominate fergdawg for the NANOG Order of=
Merit
for getting the phrase "purge the badness" into the LA Times.
"People thought the first community-source effort was a fluke,"=
Ferguson said. "Now they see with McColo, it's not a fluke. The=
community can police its own backyard and purge the badness."
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spam14-2008nov14,0,1012756.=
story
cheers
fh
PS Spam counts on my own incoming mail are down about 70%
right now. Enjoy the moment while we can ...
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>On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Kee Hinckley=
<nazgul@somewhere.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>Don't assume what you don't know. :-)
>
>- - ferg
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>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
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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