Re: McColo and SPAM

["Peter Serwe" <peter.serwe () gmail com>]

Certainly, I have seen a perceptual, yet completely subjective increase.

I know major operators who have claimed to see a gigantic decrease.

Peter

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Skywing <Skywing () valhallalegends com> wrote:
> McColo hosted the command and control servers for spam botnets and didn't originate spam directly, at least 
> primarily, according to my understanding.
>
> - S
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Serwe [mailto:peter.serwe () gmail com]
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 3:49 PM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: McColo and SPAM
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:34 AM,  <nanog-request () nanog org> wrote:
>
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:14:08 +0100
> > From: Revolver Onslaught <revolver.onslaught () gmail com>
> > Subject: McColo and SPAM
> > To: nanog <nanog () merit edu>
> > Message-ID: <49397D80.701 () gmail com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Since McColo closed, we noticed the spam was far more intensive than before.
> >
> > However, it seems the amount of spam is similar than than before.
> >
> > Do you feel the same ?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > RO
>
> It would seem that the sources of SPAM have merely moved since McColo
> was shut down and it's going to
> take some time for everyone's blackhole routes and RBL's to catch up.
> I have personally noticed a higher
> delivered spam content in my own email accounts.
>
> Peter
>
>
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