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.

Comments

Re:Spam doesn't matter to me

[bizpile]

i had that very conversation with a friend today

Re:Largest ISP?

[El Torico]

Aren't the internet arm of Worldcom anyway? You see where they get their code of ethics.

Please don't assume that UUNet (now MCI) somehow inherited WorldCon's ugly behavior. I used to work in the UUNet NOC and we hated what WorldCon did to UUNet, MCI, Brooks Fiber, MFS, and all of the other good companies that were poorly assimilated.

The most likely reason that UUNet/MCI is accounts for so much spam is simply that they are so large and interconnected that they make an easy target for spammers. Here is the current AS Internet graph showing AS 701 as the most globally connected AS.

http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_net work/pics/ascoreApr2003.gif

When you take into account the size of and scope of UUNet, the downsizing that has gone on for 4 years now, and the number of UUNet/MCI customers who may have compromised networks, then the degree of malice is not that great. Yes, I agree that it does take a long time for UUNet to pull the plug on a misbehaving customer, but it also takes a long time for other ISPs to do the same (I also worked for Qwest, so I know.)