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Spam King Lives Large off Others' E-Mail Troubles
An anonymous reader writes "Those who are fighting spam will tell you that one of the most notorious spammers out there is Alan Ralsky. Well, the Detroit Free Press has a very interesting article on him. This guy is about as unrepentant as they come, and he's saying he wants to branch out into delivering pop-up spam via the Windows Messanging service present on most Windows boxes. If you sysadmins out there have been wavering about whether to block spam-friendly networks, read this article, then go to The Spamhaus Project and SPEWS and start getting IP ranges to block." Update: 11/25 12:35 GMT by H : Yep, it's a dupe. Nope, I haven't had my coffee yet.
As much as I dislike spam (2/3 of my daily mail
is spam), I dislike spamhouse/spews as well. Their
idea of blocking complete netblocks is IMHO
an utter failure - the damage is done to many small
websites that are on the netblock perchance.
The 'bad guys' are too high up to care if one of their
C-class netblocks has some problem. After all,
it is the webhosting companies on that netblock
who will loose customers, not the network operators.
if spammers were treated by the law in the same way as breakers of the DMCA.
Or anyone the US government dosn't like.
Sure he would be shut down PDQ if GW was convinced that spam is the way terrorists keep in touch.