[68482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wholesalebandwidth.com major sponsor of spammers refuses to accept
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Mar 12 16:28:01 2004
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:27:21 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Ricardo G Patara <patara@lacnic.net>
Cc: just me <matt@snark.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040312120137.GE75999@lacnic.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Ricardo G Patara wrote:
>According to some statistics USA is one of the top in the list of
>spammers.
>Do you filter all American blocks in your network? I guess not. You
>wisely filter only some, like this 69.6.0.0/18.
>Do you filter all Asia blocks? I guess not...
>
>
When this came up the previous time, I suggested that disconnecting
Florida from the Internet would be a good start to reduce abuse.
However, since some people seem to care about the hardly measurable
amount of legitimate traffic coming from there, this has not happened.
Pete
