Steve Linford wrote:
The problem left is that Sprint are incredibly slow, getting them to
do anything about spammers with T1s (most of the spam gangs do) is
like dragging an elephant up a hill, their lawyers need endless
evidence. So the situation is "keep yelling at them" or they'll slow
down again, but "don't yell too much" now as we may have cracked it
finally.
Thanks for this. It seems that our statements are indeed true but that
(hopefully) Sprint is acting to deal with the problem.
I certainly won't do anything to upset the 'spam cannon disarmament
process'. It will be interesting to see whether the legal department admits
the problem and claims they're dealing with it or (as I suspect is more
likely) ignore our questions and send a vague response back. I do wonder
why, if they are dealing with the problem as you suggest, they are so
reluctant to publicize the fact. I would have thought a simple message
confirming the problems would have been more effective that a stonewall
response of simply ignoring or denying the problem.
I think it's ingrained Sprint policy to never admit to anything,
never mention "spam" and never talk to those dastardly anti-spammers.
Sprint was a tough one, I don't know of any other US backbone that
had the long-term spam problems Sprint has had and managed to
completely ignore complaints for so long. All other backbones I can
think of have at least an abuse desk with a desk, Sprint seemed to
have used just a big trash can.