[50110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: verio arrogance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kai Schlichting)
Thu Jul 18 18:37:21 2002
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:36:32 -0400
From: Kai Schlichting <kai@pac-rim.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Kai Schlichting <kai@pac-rim.net>
In-Reply-To: <3D373AA5.F166D1E9@swbell.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
How's THIS for Verio arrogance, going to a whole new level:
http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/filtering/verio-demand.ps
Details were on the SPAM-L list Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:51:05 EDT:
Verio threatens to sue Ron Guilmette over the IP 208.55.91.59
appearing on his FormMail.pl open-proxy/formmail server DNSBL.
And given the ever-increasing number of spammers now hopping onto Verio
tells me that Verio must be well down the spiral of death (spammers seem
to be attracted by NSP's going chapter 7/11, or who are getting close),
or else the dozen-or-so automated messages going to abuse@verio.net every
week complaining about connections (real or attempted) to hosts under
my control, and originating from their spamming customers would have shown
any results over time.
I don't need connectivity to 208.55.0.0/16. I really don't, and I have not
the slightest tolerance for litigious, small-minded, panic-lawyer-dialling
scum like this.
/etc/mail$ grep 208.55 access.local
208.55 550 Access for FormMail spam and litigious scum denied - XXXX Verio in their XXXXXXXX XXX - we block more than just 208.55.91.59 - Spammers must die - see http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/filtering/verio-demand.ps
/etc/mail$
PS: I also have zero tolerance for Nadine-type spam-generating, "single-opt-in",
"87% permission-based" emailers nowadays: 2 bounces or a single mail to a
never-existing account, and all your /24's are off into gated.conf as a
next-hop route to 127.0.0.1. And no, they won't get around that by advertising
/25's.
Good-bye route-prefix-filtering wars, and welcome to the war on spam,
where Null0'd /28's for filtering 'undesirables' just doesn't cut it any more.
Casualties like 10-15 bystanding rackspace.com customers with a "Nadine-
type" mailer in neighboring IP space be damned: "move your servers into a
different slum, cause da landlord's running down 'da neighborhood".
--
"Just say No" to Spam Kai Schlichting
New York, Palo Alto, You name it Sophisticated Technical Peon
Kai's SpamShield <tm> is FREE! http://www.SpamShield.org
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