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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.
MCI was never WorldCom. Common misconception. WorldCom attempted to buyout MCI, but the FTC blocked it before it ever happened, hence MCI was never a part of WorldCom. Also, I don't think he was refering to whether they care or not - he was refering to that since they're one of the largest, if not the largest providers, naturally, they're going to have the most spam.
~Brian
Does anyone remember when UUNet was black listed? Or when Rogers was blacklisted?
Those were the days... but the age of activist sys admins is gone... we have been replaced with dot bomb drop outs who care about nothing more than a few $$$.
We are finished.
And think about it... what antispam technique can you think of that is more effective than filters and less intrusive (IE less clicking) to the users?
Loads of things are effective but all make the user work harder than they would by just deleting the spam.
Think of spam as an advert in your newspapaer or a commercial on TV. You're fucked and nothing can be done about it. Get a TIVO and suck it up.
E.
I know nobody likes spam, but if UUNet carries 90% of spam, it's their own bandwidth that they're wasting. And if it were truly being wasted, UUNet would kick the wasters off. But it's making them money. So they don't care.
Look at it this way. The spammers are financing you slashdot/pr0n habits. So who cares? You're not really hurt personally. (I know, I know. Spam is such a HUGE waste of time. You know what? Nobody has a gun to your head forcing you to use email. Sorry.)
My other car is first.
Well, Spamhaus is one thing, but SPEWS is quite another. It's basically a bunch of retards with too much time on their hands thinking they're Magnum, PI. The routinely block up to 10%+ of all possible IP ranges of the internet, which isn't too useful if you want to receive any real mail at all. Almost every legit sender is sitting close IP-wise to someone shady.
What about legitimate companies who get listed by Dpamhaus, Spamcop, SPEWS, etc?
All these do is make it a hassle to get removed from the list, even when you take the necessary steps required (jumping through loops is an understatement for some, especially SpamHaus).
Yes I work for a web host company. Yes we have anti-spam AUPs. Yes we still believe people when they call for a sale (let's face it, cash is cash, and if a person calls you up asking for half a dozen servers you're going to be inticed, and if they fully know and agree to the polocies already in place and agree to abide by them, you really have to believe them and work with them a little).
Spamhuas even goes so far as to slander hosting companies who do have customers who send unsolicited email.
So what do we use? SpamAssassin. Kills a very good percentage of spam before our users see it, including our own accounts which have been in existance for what feels like eternity.
When Anti-spam products like these start to interfere with business, not only our own but that of our customers, I have to seriously question the merit behind them.