Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline

[Fred Heutte <aoxomoxoa () sunlightdata com>]

> p.s. McColo's upstream providers are completely within their rights to
> terminate connectivity if they feel that they have violated their
> contractual terms of service.

Indeed.  I also want to nominate fergdawg for the NANOG Order of Merit
for getting the phrase "purge the badness" into the LA Times.

  "People thought the first community-source effort was a fluke,"
  Ferguson said. "Now they see with McColo, it's not a fluke. The
  community can police its own backyard and purge the badness."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spam14-2008nov14,0,1012756.story

cheers

fh


PS  Spam counts on my own incoming mail are down about 70%
right now.  Enjoy the moment while we can ...


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> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Kee Hinckley <nazgul () somewhere com> wrote:
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> > After reading this, and the (Washington Post I believe--I'm away from my
> > laptop right now) article on this, two things are bothering me.
> >
> > The article expressed a good deal of frustration with the (lack of) speed
> > with which law enforcement has been tackling these issues. What wasn't
> > clear was whether any attempt had been made to involve them prior to the
> > shutdown.
>
> Don't assume what you don't know. :-)
>
> - - ferg
>
> p.s. McColo's upstream providers are completely within their rights to
> terminate connectivity if they feel that they have violated their
> contractual terms of service.
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> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
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