Re: Constant spam from Verizon.net

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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Patrick Kremer wrote:

> I'm taking spam messages at the rate of 6,000 per day from a specific 
> e-mail address linked to several Verizon DSL IP addresses.
<snip>
> I have spoken with their tech support numerous times and both they and 
> their supervisors say they can not help, they claim the e-mail addresses 
> are the only recourse.

    Verizon.net is blackholed on our networks two reasons:

        1.      The sheer volume of spam courtesy of their netblocks, and

        2.      The sheer audacity of their "whitelist" arrangement in
                which I and my customers have to give *them* our personal
                data to send their users e-mail...while verizon itself
                apparently does nothing to curb its outbound spam.

	Since verizon.net was blackholed on our networks, our spam level 
has gone down significantly; almost as much as it did when we blackholed 
all of China.

- -Jay

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