>>>>> "Yuval" == Yuval Levy <post...@sfina.com> writes:
Yuval> On 2019-01-20 14:40, John Stoffel wrote: >> The only problem with Digital Ocean right now is that Charter/Spectrum >> in the US has blocked all (most? At least the one I'm using...) blocks >> assigned to DO for some insane reason. Yuval> Why insane? Having been a DO customer for more than five Yuval> years, I am not surprised. *bad neighborhood*. DO is not Yuval> doing enough to prevent spam and viruses emanating from its Yuval> network. This affects me both as a sender and as a recipient Yuval> of emails. I'm not sure you'll ever find *any* good neighborhood, since it's too easy for anyone to spin up a system next to yours IP wise, and then someone just takes the hammer and nukes the entire block. Even if you are a good netizen. Yuval> I have received too much spam emanating from DO's network, Yuval> including traditional email spam and text messages with links Yuval> to droplets on the DO network that were spreading malware. Yuval> When I tried to get DO's abuse team to take action, they were Yuval> slow, dismissive, useless. Despite evidence to a level that Yuval> would withstand in a court of justice, they closed the cases Yuval> with no action taken simply because the offending droplet has Yuval> gone. It does not seem to have occurred to them that the Yuval> spammer has probably gone to another IP address on their Yuval> network. I don't bother too much with tracking it for my own personal domain, I just postgrey, spamassassin, and then try to black hole those that make it through. It's not ideal, but I don't have a beter answer and I don't think *anyone* does. Yuval> My conclusion was to jump ship at the next opportunity. I am Yuval> currently testing an alternative provider and will possibly say Yuval> goodbye to DO in a few weeks. Share the results please. John
