Re: Verizon hosting spammers :)

[jdow]

And now Verison is sending out spam to get people to join verison.com.
They are going into my black list at the procmail level ASAP except for
a VERY few verison addresses.

{`,'}    A pissed off Joanne.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Hepworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <users@spamassassin.apache.org>
Sent: 2005 January, 17, Monday 01:37
Subject: Re: Verizon hosting spammers :)


>
> It's true, Verizon have apparently blocked all email from RIPE, APNIC
> allocated addresses (Europe and Asia Pac) starting Dec 22 2004.
> Apparently MessageLabs took 2 whole days to get onto their whitelist.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/14/verizon_email_block/
>
> D'oh...
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Menno van Bennekom wrote:
> > Yes, I think they host a lot of spammers.
> > I only get spam/virus mails from Verizon here (Netherlands) so I blocked
> > dsl-verizon.net in postfix and it that means about 100 spams/viruses
less
> > per day. If they want to sent real mail they still can do so through the
> > smtp-servers of their provider.
> > There was a funny message on the net lately, about Verizon planning to
> > block all European mail-traffic because of spam. We had a good laugh
about
> > that over here.
> >
> > Menno van Bennekom
> >
> >
> >>Brief header I'm not too interested in.
> >>
> >>Received: from mail.printosh.hu (241.75-228-195.hosting.adatpark.hu
> >>[195.228.75.241])
> >> by moglobal.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id j0E5Lj1E012550
> >> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:21:47 -0500
> >>Received: from [195.228.75.61] (HELO 195.228.75.41)
> >>  by mail.printosh.hu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8)
> >>  with SMTP id 152241; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:20:51 +0100
> >>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>From: "Low-Cost Term Life" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >>HTML code showing verizon site. Should we block all mysite pages?
/sniker/
> >>
> >><a onmouseover="window.status='See Your Savings!';return true;"
> >>href="http://mysite.verizon.net/resoxfmz/1.htm";><img border="0"
> >>src="http://pws.prserv.net/maxlife/EBA.jpg"; width="620"
> >>height="393"></a><!-- n bugtwtms sucxjdta uvjezwpb --></p><p><font
> >>face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size="1">
> >><a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/resoxfmz/ServiceBasic.htm";>Legal</a>
> >><a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/resoxfmz/1.htm";>Privacy</a>
> >></font><font
> >>face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color="#4e4e4e" size="1">
> >><a
>
>>href="http://mysite.verizon.net/resoxfmz/ServiceBasic.htm";>Preferences</a>
</
> >>font><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size="1">&nbsp;</font></p><!-- k
> >>hdfkzxgx tyhgmzrl hx--><p><font color="#FFFFFF"><span style="font-size:
> >>1pt">&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; Will they give the child a good religious
> >>upbringing?
> >>That's our religion, isn't it? How ya doin'?</span></font></p>
> >>
> >>
> >>Chris Santerre
> >>System Admin and SARE/SURBL Ninja
> >>http://www.rulesemporium.com
> >>http://www.surbl.org
> >>'It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
> >>not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.'
> >>Charles Darwin
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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