Port 25 - Blacklash

Tue Apr 26 21:10:33 UTC 2005

[In the message entitled "Re: Port 25 - Blacklash" on Apr 26, 16:30, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu writes:]
> Comcast.net has 31,923 addresses listed at the moment.
> 
> Do they have 30,000 zombies, or 30,000 customers that post to popular mailing
> lists?  Quite possibly at least partly the latter, as 24.22.118.199 ranks a 3.0
> and isn't (as far as I know) a spam zombie, but a frequent poster to the
> linux-kernel list. Meanwhile, of those 31,923, only 1,969 have a monthly
> magnitude of 4.7 or more, the 4.8 cutoff is at 1,567, and the last 4.9 is at
> 1,012. And that 4.9 is (roughly) twice as much as I generate...
> 

They have approximately 40,000 zombies (as mesured over all of their
ASNs, from 01-JAN to yesterday).

  Total           277646       7207       1731415         36396

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