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Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network
From: Steve Linford <linford () spamhaus org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:15:25 +0100
From Ben Browning, received 29/6/04, 9:56 am -0700 (GMT):
Steve Linford wrote:The statement by Ben Browning: "I know several businesses who have, and a great many people who have blocked UUNet space from sending them email ... by using ... the SBL" is false, the SBL has never blocked UUNet/MCI IP space that wasn't directly in the control of spammers. If Mr Browning does indeed know "several businesses and a great many people" whose UUNet/MCI IP space has been blocked by the SBL, then Mr Browning knows several spam outfits and a great many spammers.Let me rephrase: I know several businesses and a great many people who block *parts* of UUNet by the SBL and *larger* parts of it by means of SPEWS, blackholes.us, et al.
I obviously read more into it than you meant, sorry (I though you were implying we were blocking MCI IPs above and in addition to IPs belonging to spammers, something we try hard not to do).
Regardless, the SBL does block *some* UUNet space, much of which(according to responses here) no longer belongs to the spammers.
That's correct. At a guess I'd say possibly even 20% of our MCI listings are stale, and we don't know which ones. Without illegally scanning the MCI IPs to see what's running there we have very little way of knowing which spammers are departed or not, because MCI/UUNet Abuse will not tell us.
Unlike listings of normal providers which tend to manage themselves, MCI SBL listings continue to grow in number and are removed either because they've reached their time-out setting or because someone higher up yells and the Abuse guys get their fingers out. We see things start to happen when Christopher Morrow gets involved, but they soon revert if he's not chasing them. Vint Cerf is now aware of the situation so perhaps more might begin to move and we may soon see those MCI listings drop down, and maybe a refresh of MCI's AUP enforcement.
Thanks for voicing your opinion with MCI. -- Steve Linford The Spamhaus Project http://www.spamhaus.org
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- RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network Steve Linford (Jun 26)
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- Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network Tom (UnitedLayer) (Jun 26)
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- Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network Tom (UnitedLayer) (Jun 27)
- Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network Doug White (Jun 27)
- Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network Ben Browning (Jun 29)
- Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network Steve Linford (Jun 29)
- RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network Dr. Jeffrey Race (Jun 24)
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