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RE: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Larter)
Fri Nov 14 19:20:04 2008
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:20:32 -0500
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.999999.0811141734320.18346@linuxbox.org>
From: "Dave Larter" <dave@stayonline.com>
To: "Gadi Evron" <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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I agree, yes it will, but it was nice to see proven the ability to fight
the trash out there. Actually, coincidently I was installing new AV SW
on out pub DNS and SMTP gateways the same time they got there plug
pulled, I thought I was breaking stuff on my end, but not as the news
hit the list a short time after I started updating. And in my previous
post I meant tremendous drop.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge@linuxbox.org]=20
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 6:36 PM
To: Dave Larter
Cc: Matthew Black; NANOG list
Subject: RE: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams
andSpamsKnockedOffline (fwd)
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Dave Larter wrote:
> I would agree, a tedious drop. The image is from one of our gateways.
Spam will be back. The value is that we see networks no longer willing
to=20
accept bad apples among them. There are other pros and cons, but if=20
nothing else, it's a moral victory and makes some of us feel=20
good--finally.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Black [mailto:black@csulb.edu]
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 10:56 AM
> To: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams
> andSpamsKnockedOffline (fwd)
>
> Since McColo, et al., cutting off those miscreant customers
> on Wednesday, I've noticed a huge decline in connection
> attempts to our e-mail gateways. Even if their efforts are
> temporary, the change is quite noticeable.
>
> matthew black
> e-mail postmaster
> california state university, long beach
>
>
