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UUNet tops spammer-hosting super league

ISPs harbour world's worst offenders

By Lucy Sherriff

Posted in Security, 1st March 2004 16:24 GMT

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UUNet hosts more spammers than any other ISP. It has 151 listings on the Spammers Block List (SBL), including 34 known spam gangs with ROKSO [1] records, according to the anti-spam organisation Spamhaus' [2] records for February 2004.

The second worst offender, Chinanet-QD, has 82 entries on the SBL. It hosts Alan Ralsky, listed as the single worst spammer on the ROKSO list.

Banning unsolicited commercial email is a simple matter, Spamhaus says. it has examples of well written anti-spam rules for ISPs wanting to toughen their stance. Finding the will to enforce these rules is another thing.

In its acceptable use policy, UUNet states: "It is explicitly prohibited to send unsolicited bulk mail messages (junk mail or spam) of any kind (commercial advertising, political tracts, announcements), etc."

Abovenet, too, has a clear and prominent anti-spam [3] policy - and is number four on the worst-spam ISP list. It host one of the biggest villains: Scott Richter/Wholesale Bandwidth, who made number four on the invividual offender list. ®

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