[109787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: McColo and SPAM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sat Dec 6 02:36:48 2008
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 23:36:38 -0800
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <D175CB0A04FE634587DA0987F3C4231021D1D6E3B7@iddawg.blacknight.local>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Paul Kelly :: Blacknight
<paul@blacknight.com> wrote:
> We saw a dramatic decrease. Attached is our dnsbl mirror in .ie, it
> mirrors spamhaus amoungst other things.
>
McColo was just an exercise in "managing" cyber crime operations in the
U.S.
Please do not be distracted by the whole "spam" issue, it's just a
byproduct of much larger criminal operation.
What this community should really be discussing is how to deal with these
issue in a collaborative manner, because that is exactly what is need to
combat it.
$.02,
- - ferg
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