[67106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Unbelievable Spam.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Thompson)
Mon Feb 2 18:30:10 2004
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:23:09 -0800
From: Bill Thompson <Billt@Mahagonny.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <200402022103.i12L3c623832@rex.isdn.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:01:19 -0600
"Ejay Hire" <ejay.hire@isdn.net> wrote:
> --snip--
>
> It's just wrong in my opinion, and exacerbated by the fact
> that it was spammend to our abuse account. Their /24 just
> fell off of my piece of the internet. Have I just been
> blind to this all along, or are the spammers getting bolder?
>
> -Ejay
Don't forget that the bulk of SPAM sent nowadays originate from zombie M$
boxes sitting on home broadband connections. Be very sure that the IP
space is owned by the guilty party before blackholing addresses.
--
Bill Thompson
BillT@Mahagonny.com
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