[anti-abuse-wg] RIPE Abuse

Vesna sent me a request to join this group and with your meeting
coming up, I would like to put some last minute issues in:

XSServer, a German virtual private server / dedicated server hosting
provider, is starting to be the new king when it comes to ignored
abuse complaints. A lot of their IP ranges are being used for spam,
including email and the new comment spam on websites / forums (mainly
Wordpress). The simple solution taken by webmasters and system
administrators are to create a list of offending IPs to have for
comparison purposes, check a potential IP against that and use that IP
to block the spam from going through. That doesn't really work in the
long term.

Examples of offending IPs are:
109.230.216.225
109.230.220.34
109.230.217.166
109.230.220.95

I could find more but I just searched 109.230 in my email client and
found these.

I have noticed also that a lot of RIPE IPs also have invalid contact
information or no abuse / admin information whatsoever on them which I
believe is against your rules / guidelines.

Thank you and thank you for Vesna for recommending this mailing list
for me. I just imagine a day we rely on blacklists and rely more on
providers fixing the problems themselves, rather than having any
incompetent government intervene to cause more problems to "fix the
problem"

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"The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to
be when you kill them." - Sir William Clayton