Scam-Linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out

alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The lifeline linking notorious service provider Intercage to the rest of the Internet has been severed. Intercage, which has also done business under the name Atrivo, was knocked offline late Saturday night when the last upstream provider connecting it to the Internet's backbone, Pacific Internet Exchange, terminated Intercage's service. Intercage president Emil Kacperski said Pacific did not tell him why his company had been knocked offline, but he believes it was in response to pressure from Spamhaus, a volunteer-run antispam group, which has been highly critical of Intercage's business practices."

Comments

i used them

[Anonymous Coward]

I used them for hosting and it wasnt for good purposes. I am probably one of those internet scumbacks you hate. However I dont do anything thats illegal here (haha you cocksuckers there in the usa).

They were known "good" host, but you know what? Theres lots more, and most who used them actually moved out before this too (intercage and their resellers started to go more legit way).

Got something you wanna say to a person of a kind you hate? Shoot it this way, or ask any question (no, i dont do spam tho). And yes, I make more money than any of you will probably ever do.

It's a slippery slope...

[JustDisGuy]

I dislike spam as much as the next guy, but when we start letting ISP's decide what we can do with our domains it's the beginning of the end.

A much better solution would be to devise and implement a secure authenticated email system. SMTP is so 60's...