SuperJudge
Magus
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join:2002-11-14
Albany, GA
clubs: | Dirty Spaniards!
Take your ebullfighting dirty nasty stuff elsewhere! Enlarge your penis! |
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hitman247
@trebnet.com
| Its about time....
its about time isp's start taking a hard line approach to these kind of wild-west isps around the world. these smaller companies just dont bother to realise that providing a T1 connection to users is not the entire focus of their business. it is also to provide a level of good netizenship. |
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odog
Cable Centric Vendor Biased
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join:2001-08-05
Norcross, GA
clubs: | how bout blacklisting the entire country of nigeria? |
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Vvian Kalyss
join:2003-10-14
Stage 5.0
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|  About time
You know what? I agree. My local ISP actually made it into the newspapers after a bunch of their IPs FINALLY got blacklisted. The news articles were all like, "we're on top of this stuff", "we're going to make sure this doesn't happen again", and the usual "omg wtf were my underlings doing" bleatings by the higher-ups.
My ISP happens to be the major telco in the country. They've been ignoring the spam problem for quite some time (read: YEARS). I'm GLAD the situation blew up in their faces. Don't any of their IT people KNOW anything?
I'm fed-up with ISPs who don't investigate REPEATED complaints.
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ParanoiaInc
join:2002-08-28
Tucker, GA
| What the threshhold for these kinds of activities?
What the threshold for these kinds of activities? For every 1,000 IP's that an ISP can assign, how many of them have to be trouble-makers before considering them haven crossed the line? Can this be an IP-base matrix to measure upon? Its difficult to base it on subscribership because the very nature of being able to setup accounts fraudulently makes repetitious activities easy. |
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Slidetbone
Mazin Go
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join:2002-11-10
Land O Lakes, FL | reply to odog
Re: Its about time....
That would finally get rid of the MUGU MUGU man! |
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jjoshua
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join:2001-06-01
Scotch Plains, NJ
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Comcast
| Don't use your ISP's email
As a personal user, The best solution is to use a 3rd party email provider. There are plenty of good free ones out there.
This way, you don't have to deal with your ISP's inability to block SPAM and you don't have to change your email address if you decide to change ISPs. |
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PTS
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join:2001-12-13
Charlotte, NC
clubs: | I agree, have used one for years. Sucks that one has to take these kind of steps, but it gets the job done... |
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ojing
join:2004-03-09
Norwalk, CT
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Blocklisting? Ho hum
A friend of mine on Cablevision's OptimumOnLine gets blocklisted all the time. Perhaps once per week. Goes through the effort to get his particular address unblocked. Result? Nothing by Cablevision except to admit that a good portion of their users are spammers.
Can someone with more experience tell me whether their system is particularly non secure? (That was not an invitation to hack them, though I suspect that any attacks generated by the good people who visit this site would be totally swamped by the current spam.) |
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Rhobite
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join:2002-02-24
Cambridge, MA
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| Well does he have any spam trojans? That would be my first question. My second question would be, what blocklists did he make it onto? Is his IP on the Spamcop spam sources list? Does he change IP often?
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Monster Rain
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join:2002-08-03
USA
1 edit | Blocklisted Completely
Good. Now just take care of AOL. |
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Ernesto47
join:2002-02-12
Palm Bay, FL
| reply to hitman247
Re: Its about time....
 I am for the blacklisting. However, Telefonica of Spain is one of the largest ISPs around. They own ISPs in multiple countries in Latin America and even have a minuscule USA presence. That is what will make the blacklisting so effective, because they will have to clean up not only in Spain but in multiple countries  |
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mariolanning
join:2002-04-19
Tucson, AZ | Gain inches over night!
Gain inches over night. Just send me $19.95.. |
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ojing
join:2004-03-09
Norwalk, CT
| reply to Rhobite
Re: Blocklisting? Ho hum
His machine is clean. Latest AV, router and Macintosh help with that. But the IPs are dynamic and he gets allocated addresses that are on black lists. Curious, I was looking to see which ones but could not find any, I was hoping that BBR could shed some light on this. Was the Optimumonline rep spewing? Do they run open proxys or relays? Seems unlikely in this day and age but perhaps the only obstacle to spam on their system is via MAC addresses.
Don't know. Would be interesting to find out. Give us DSL users something to fling back into the face of the superfast optimumonline crowd (other than reliable mail and free dial-up accounts). |
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Piobaireachd
Happy Halloween
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join:2000-09-21
Port Orchard, WA
| reply to odog
Re: Its about time....
said by odog  :
how bout blacklisting the entire country of nigeria?
I'm thinking why not blacklist most of Asia, especially China.
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rstrandb
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join:2003-04-17
Albany, GA | reply to SuperJudge
Re: Dirty Spaniards!
Maybe the spam blacklist is managed by uber-PETA people and this is their first overt move to world domination.
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SuperJudge
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join:2002-11-14
Albany, GA
clubs: | Then we must all eat hotdogs. |
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TheToro
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join:2003-06-05
London, UK | reply to SuperJudge
WTF are you talking about? i bet you dont know where is SPain, even you'd have to spend 30min to find Canada in a map.
No hables de algo que no sepas. ¿ por qué siempre tiene que haber un "toca pelotas" en todos los sitios? |
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Augustus III
If Only Rome Could See Us Now....
join:2001-01-25
Gainesville, GA | reply to mariolanning
Re: Gain inches over night!
do you accept photocopy money?
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SuperJudge
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join:2002-11-14
Albany, GA
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| reply to TheToro
Re: Dirty Spaniards!
said by TheToro :
WTF are you talking about? i bet you dont know where is SPain, even you'd have to spend 30min to find Canada in a map.
No hables de algo que no sepas. ¿ por qué siempre tiene que haber un "toca pelotas" en todos los sitios?
Did I hurt your feelings? I used to live 50 minutes from Canada, which is roughly a half an inch on a map, or about a centimeter. Spain was about a foot away, or just a smidgun over 30 centimeters. Probably about 16 hours, never flown, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a stopover in Lisbon. Jerk.
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