[145933] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris)
Wed Oct 26 20:23:44 2011
In-Reply-To: <20111026171837.0dafce03@petrie.dereferenced.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:22:53 -0400
From: Chris <caldcv@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> McColo and Atrivo were disconnected for much larger sins than spamming
> someone's wordpress blog.
Many of you do not understand the scope of "just spamming a Wordpress blog".
This is a huge business. Shady "SEO" companies are charging
individuals at least $250 per month to use their spam tools of choice
to spam forums and Wordpress blogs. I got one of the major players on
the run right now because he cannot seem to keep his "business page"
hosted with a company longer than a few weeks and I keep playing
whack-a-mole with him.
Guess what? Innocent people's websites are being deranked on Google
for hiring these guys with their shady backlink services and their
money is being taken. Yes I know they got what they deserved, but it's
so obvious with these backlink guys using cheap virtual private
servers for a month, getting shutdown and getting a new IP address
that something needs to be done.
XSServer could have simply amused me with a default auto reply to make
it look like they are doing something.
> Will your host allow you to block IP ranges?
Not the solution I was looking for because blocking IP ranges and
using scripts / services / etc like Akismet or others is simply
ignoring the problem, not solving it.
For folks who say hosting companies are not helpful: Linode, Amazon,
BurstNET, Ubiquity Servers and others are extremely responsive to
abuse complaints.
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--C
"The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to
be when you kill them." - Sir William Clayton
