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XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider
From: Chris <caldcv () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:12:33 -0400
Hello I run a few Wordpress sites here and there, but I'm amazed at the amount of spam that comes from xsserver.eu's clients. Their abuse department is non-responsive: they do not even have auto responders to emails and the offending IP addresses keep spamming weeks after my email. I have CC'd my abuse complaints to Hurricane Electric, with no luck either, so I'm stuck Before somebody screams the path of least resistance of "just install Akismet or (insert spam plugin here)", that type of thinking just makes spam even worse because we just keep large, possibly stale, databases of IP addresses that may or may not be active spammers and does not address the issue. Does anyone have any recommendations of where to go next because I'm just limited to doing a whois on the IP address, emailing the abuse contact and tracerouting. Examples of the offending IPs are: 109.230.216.225 109.230.220.34 109.230.217.166 109.230.220.95 A prime offender is hellomotow.net, who provides "SEO" services with automated spamming tools. hellomotow.net has spammed me in the past from IP addresses like this so I believe XSServer is becoming the new McColo / AlphaRed / ThePlanet (back in the day, their abuse dept is very responsive now) I'm not asking for you to do the footwork for me, unless you want, but just needed some advice from folks more knowledgeable than myself. -- --C "The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them." - Sir William Clayton
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- XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider Chris (Oct 26)
- Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider Nicolai (Oct 26)
- Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider Chris (Oct 26)
- Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider William Pitcock (Oct 26)
- Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider Chris (Oct 26)
- Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider William Pitcock (Oct 26)
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- Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider Kyle Creyts (Oct 30)
- Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider William Pitcock (Oct 26)
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