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Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
From: Steve Linford <linf...@spamhaus.org>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:10:05 +0100
Local: Mon, Feb 4 2008 3:10 am
Subject: Re: What happened at Verizon?
In article
<492a1e6e-27b8-4235-87fb-474c7fc8b...@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, Fred the Red Shirt <fredfigh...@spamcop.net> wrote: > I just checked at spamhaus and Verizon When Verizon bought MCI, Verizon was using Spamhaus for spam > is no longer #1 on their top ten list of spam > supporting ISPs. In fact, they've dropped > off the list altogether, though just barely with > 24 'issues' compared to the 25 issues of #10 > on the list. > But they were like #1 for YEARS. > Have they improved, and if so how and why? filtering. Acquiring MCI's heavy baggage of spammers accumulated by the former MCI abuse managers caused Verizon to leap into our Top 10. Spamhaus then advised Verizon of our 'service restrictions' clause (see: datafeed faqs) which prohibits the use of Spamhaus data by networks who let themselves get into our Top 10. Verizon promised us the problem would be fixed and in fact the spammers then began falling off Verizon, down very considerably from the previous hundreds of serious issues MCI/UUNet had brought with them. Considering the size of the problem they started with in my view they have done a good job. Of the (current 24) records left, I know that 5 of the ROKSO listings -- You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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