[CLUE-Tech] reverse DNS

[Mike Staver]

> seeing of course is believing.
> 
> http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801,95868,00.html 
> 
> 
> Computerworld notes that Savvis is commited to bouncing its 40 worst, 
> but that Spamhaus has 122 listed.  Part of that might be a case of the 
> same spammer owning multiple CIDR's in different parts of the Savvis 
> assigned blocks, but I don't think bouncing 40 will get their Spamhaus 
> list to zero.  Funny how they are blaming the problem on their 
> acquisition of Clueless and Witless^W^W^W Cable and Wireless, despite 
> the internal memos that leaked.
> 
> It seems that ARIN asked Savvis to release unused space.  According to 
> some reports, Savvis was moving its spammers around to actively evade 
> blocks. The ARIN requirement apparently put the crunch on Savvis and 
> made that more difficult to do.  They were starting to lose legitimate 
> customers whose checks were actually good from month to month.
> 
> If they really go ahead and drop Eddie Marin, Eric Reinertsen, Scot 
> Richter, Webfinity, Gaven Stubberfield, Ronnie Scelson , and World 
> Reach, this could get significant.  (Trivia question - how many in that 
> list are convicted felons?)  Those are the ones that have been thrown 
> off so many ISPs that they are starting to find it difficult to stay 
> connected.  I think once that bunch is gone, I'll remove Savvis from my 
> local blocks even if the Spamhaus database doesn't have them down to 
> zero yet.
> 
> Now if only MCI would do the same.

Well, as a Savvis customer, I'm glad to hear you'll be removing your 
local block :) I actually hope a lot of others do the same, since we've 
been using Savvis for 5 years now, and have no plan for changing. I 
didn't realize until this thread that Savvis was so bad about hosting 
spammers.  We use them because we get an amazing discount for a T1, and 
have been fairly happy with them after a rough first year with lots of 
down time.

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                                 -Mike Staver
                                  staver at fimble.com
                                  mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com