Another Side-Effect of Spam

ghostie writes: "According to this article on news.com.au Telstra (Australias largest Telco) is having some problems with email blacklist operators. They claim that large (previously unused) portions of it's IP range have been black-listed even though they have never been used before. It seems the direct-action approach to stopping spam is having a detrimental effect as well. When will it all stop?"

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Telstra, at least some time back . . .

[vegetablespork]

. . . was notorious for hosting spamvertised sites. Spammers would make a spam run on a throwaway account, while their make money fast, penis enlargement, multilevel marketing, or what have you site safely operated in Telstra's IP space.

Writing to Telstra would get you an auto-ignore saying that the spam didn't originate from Telstra, and thus they would do nothing. If they still operate this way, they have it coming, and it serves them right.