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Re: SPEWS?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu Jun 20 22:10:31 2002

Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:07:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: measl@mfn.org
Cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>,
	David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206201954280.15396-100000@greeves.mfn.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 measl@mfn.org wrote:

> > Well if you want to talk about western networks, qwest ranks second just 
> > behind chinanet in terms of black hat and spam.
> 
> s/qwest/verio/g
> 
> As someone who has recently had the "pleasure" of dealing with some of their
> pink sheet clientele...

IME, Verio has been clueless in many ways in the past, but they do have an
abuse desk. It appears that the guy in charge is a white-hat. I have even
met someone who claims to work the Qwest abuse desk, and I haven't been
given any reason not to believe her yet! :) (She even LARTed a spamming
Qwest salesrep for me, which was cool.)


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stance towards abusive priests. The fact that 20% didn't, scares me...



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