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RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom (UnitedLayer))
Fri Jun 25 13:41:39 2004

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:36:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@unitedlayer.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.0.20040625094025.034596b8@127.0.0.1>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote:
> At 04:00 PM 6/24/2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> >[ Operations content: ] Do you know of any ISP's null routing AS701?
>
> ISPs? Not of the top of my head. I know several businesses who have, and a
> great many people who have blocked UUNet space from sending them email,
> either by using SPEWS, the SBL, or mci.blackholes.us .

Do these people know how much legitimate email they're missing, for every
spam message that's blocked?

I noticed that from my personal mailbox (which I do filter with spam
assassin), for every one legit mail that gets blocked/tagged by SPEWS,
there's maybe 1-2 junkmails. Thats not a very impressive ratio...


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