Anyone at Level3?

Wed Oct 8 00:30:27 UTC 2003

Looking for someone at Level3.

While this pales in comparison to Cisco's DoS situation, my home DSL 
connection is currently getting slammed by a Level3 customer who has 
in the past week attempted to send me 2.6 million email messages in 
bursts that are swamping my connection--even though I reject them 
before we get the DATA.

I've sent messages to Level3 abuse and securityoperations addresses 
several times over the past week, and I've called them on the phone. 
They downloaded my log file, but they've done nothing to either 
respond, or deal with the problem.

It's not like the guy is an unknown quantity, see:
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL6857
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL5576
He's known for the fact that he ignores 5x SMTP codes.  Which is all 
very fine, but it doesn't explain why he's trying to blast me off the 
net.

Just rejected another 10,000 connection attempts as I wrote this.
-- 
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/         Next Generation Spam Defense
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/  Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.