Re: FW: Resolution of Spam

[Paul Wouters <]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 paul@localhost wrote:

> After receiving a porno spam last week advertising pornvideospecials.com, I
> forwarded it to Level3 abuse and Caroline Skene at level3 (because Level3
> abuse don't normally take spam reports seriously without a bit of
> encouragement).
> 
> Despite an assurance she would get back to me that afternoon, all I got was
> a mail back from Level3 abuse over the weekend titled 'Resolution of Spam'.
> The site is still live, but they say they have informed the ISP downstream.
> The ISP has clearly failed to act.

You want ISP's to cancel a lient if you receive a promoting spam about
their client?

Let's see, let me see what happens when I send out a spam advertising
Cactushop ASP shopping cart v4.1 just to get you off the market.....

Don't underestimate evil people. I've appeared on From: lines on spam
just because I managed to kill somone's temp spam accounts.

> Seems Level3 doesn't deal with abuse complaints, just passes them down to
> professional spam outfits below them and that's it. Not really a resolution
> in my book.
 
Sometimes it can be tricky, but indeed too many ISP's just always give
the enduser "1 warning" just to get rid of the complaint. The Abuse
deks at Planet.nl/wxs.nl is such a sadly bad example of that approach.

I guess in the deeps of the dot.com crisis, spammers are the last few
customers that generate fairly good income :(
 
Paul
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