williams spamhaus blacklist

Wed Sep 24 23:10:12 UTC 2003

this is not without precedent.. 
Anyone from Cable and Wireless listening?
If I remember correctly, Cable and Wireless was blocked last year
or earlier this year by a similiar ploy.
And I also seem to remember them making major
complaints over on the SPAM-L list.. 

Later,
J

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bicknell at ufp.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:30 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: williams spamhaus blacklist
> 
> 
> In a message written on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:14:04PM 
> -0400, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> > The moment they started blacklisting IPs that never sent spam. (AKA 
> > williams corporate mail servers).
> 
> For those who care:
> 
> http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL10731
> 
> I quote:
> 
> ] WilTel Communications Group's Corporate Mail Relays
> ] Continued hosting of Eddy Marin spam gang and others have 
> caused this
> ] listing. Previous warnings and spam reports had no effect.
> 
> So, they have decided since WilTil has one (alleged?) spammer
> customer none of wiltel should be allowed to send or receive e-mail
> anymore.
> 
> The complete list of Williams issues is at:
> 
> http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=wcg
> 
> As per usual, no amount of collateral damage is deemed unacceptable.
> 
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