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UUNet Is The Number 1 Spam Host
An anonymous reader submits "Statistics for February have UUnet leading the Spamhaus top 10 worst Spam ISPs chart. The Register point out that ISPs like UUnet and Abovenet continue to host spammers despite advertising anti-spam AUPs." And the competition is probably wishing they had as much luck.
UU carries 50% of the US's total Internet traffic and 90% of its e-mail. It makes an easy target.
Spammers can sneak into even the most STRINGENT anti-spam ISP network. A stolen credit card that works only once gets a spammer an account that can deliver many thousands of letters before they're shut down. UUnet isn't spam-friendly anymore than Rackspace is spam-friendly. Spam is going nowhere until good authentication techniques are implemented internet-wide.
Check again. When WorldCom filed for bankruptcy they changed the name back to MCI.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
nearly all spams contain a link to somewhere. I just filter out the domains those links go to since no legitimate e-mail will contain a link to those domains. You also can't hide the destination of a link if you don't leave the harvesting solely up to an automated system.
Takes care of most of the spam. And it costs spammers money every time they get a new domain so I can deal with what little spam gets through before the filter is updated. I've put hundreds of domains in my Mercury Mail filter which equals thousands of dollars worth of domains that are now useless for sending spam through my mail server. And it doesn't matter how distorted the header or body is. The domain can't be distorted or it won't work as a link.
Ben
Work Safe Porn
The MCI / UUnet thing is mostly internal politics but also a little bit business related. You can get 2 internet circuits or 2 frame relay connections from the company and have it go over 2 different networks for diversity. One would run on the MCI network, the other would run on the UUnet network. This gear is supposed to be completely separate.
Also they dont monitor your traffic, can you imagine the logs that would create. They only contact you about spam (or whatever else) if someone complains to them about something coming from your IPs.