[68451] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wholesalebandwidth.com major sponsor of spammers refuses to accept email at abuse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Bruns)
Thu Mar 11 22:18:40 2004
From: "Brian Bruns" <bruns@2mbit.com>
To: "Henry Linneweh" <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:14:25 -0500
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On Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:11 PM [EST], Henry Linneweh
<hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have received almost 200 different spam messages from domains hosted by
> this provider from russain domains attempting to sell pharmacueticals and
> other unsolicited services that I do not want tekmailer.com and moosq.com
> are 2 of the primary
> abusers from this hosting company
>
> -Henry
>
>
>
> Message from yahoo.com.
> Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).
>
> <abuse@wholesalebandwidth.com>:
> 69.6.21.60 does not like recipient.
> Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 <abuse@wholesalebandwidth.com>... Relaying
> denied
> Giving up on 69.6.21.60.
Wholesalebandwidth is just a front-end for spammers. I've had them
blacklisted for a long time with no ill affects (and alot less spam).
--
Brian Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources
http://www.sosdg.org
The Abusive Hosts Blocking List
http://www.ahbl.org
