[68466] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wholesalebandwidth.com major sponsor of spammers refuses to
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Snyder)
Fri Mar 12 10:13:04 2004
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:12:22 -0500
From: Bob Snyder <rsnyder@toontown.erial.nj.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.0.20040312111245.03a2ea00@lacnic.net.uy>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
German Valdez wrote:
>
> In that case you would be blocking all the networks in 29 economies in
> Latin american and caribbean region.
>
The people doing this generally know this. They often also block big
chunks of APNIC too. They often believe that the ratio of legitimate
mail to spam coming from these networks for their customers is too poor
to not block. They'll usually whitelist an address if one of their
customers requests it.
I'm not condoning the practice; I find it too extreme for my tastes. But
there are a number of people doing it. Do a search at groups.google.com
for "LACNIC group:news.admin.net-abuse.email" to see what people are
saying/blocking.
Bob
