OT: Interesting email I received

Fri Feb 1 20:47:22 UTC 2002

> > National ISP Co. is a business class bulk email friendly ISP.
> Tracing the route to NATIONAL-ISP.ORG (65.114.61.35)
> [...]
>  15 atl-edge-14.inet.qwest.net (205.171.21.182) [AS 209] 132 msec 100 msec 144 msec
>  16 208.47.124.58 [AS 209] 388 msec 852 msec 608 msec
>  17 NATIONAL-ISP.ORG (65.114.61.35) [AS 209] 524 msec 584 msec 268 msec
> 
> Well, qwest *is* bulk-friendly...

We've been tracking spam closely as the geeks in the back room are
homebrewing 'SpamShredder'.. and Andrew (the head anti-spam programmer)
told me today that just over 50% of what we are seeing is coming from
Qwest controlled IP's, mostly low end resell dial-ups. 