Greetings!
I am a U.S. magazine business magazine reporter based in Paris, and I'm working on a story about Wanadoo.
In the course of my research, I've become aware of the fact that Wanadoo
was in a lot of hot water about 18 months ago because the wanadoo.fr domain was being used as the origin of a lot of hack attacks and spam. The company seemed unresponsive at the time to requests to clean up its act, and as a result, the entire domain was blocked by some ISPs.
I believe this chunk from NANAE is a good introduction to the view that net admins take of wanadoo:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=Xns9366761EAE99Fagent01413mydejacom%40207.174.251.62&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2B%2522wanadoo%2Bfr%2522%2Bgroup:news.admin.net-abuse.email%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26as_drrb%3Db%26as_mind%3D12%26as_minm%3D2%26as_miny%3D2003%26as_maxd%3D29%26as_maxm%3D5%26as_maxy%3D2003%26selm%3DXns9366761EAE99Fagent01413mydejacom%2540207.174.251.62%26rnum%3D2
Basically, they decided to finally have an RFC compliant "abuse@" address.. however they will only accept complaints from their own subscribers there.. Oh yeah.. that's the proper solution to the problem...
I don't block them here because more than my mail would be affected, however were this a personal server/domain I'd likely have them blocked at the firewall level.
It seems their biggest problem is hosting a very large number of open proxies that are repeatedly abused.
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