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RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

  • From: Tom (UnitedLayer)
  • Date: Fri Jun 25 13:43:54 2004 
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote:
> At 04:00 PM 6/24/2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> >[ Operations content: ] Do you know of any ISP's null routing AS701?
>
> ISPs? Not of the top of my head. I know several businesses who have, and a
> great many people who have blocked UUNet space from sending them email,
> either by using SPEWS, the SBL, or mci.blackholes.us .

Do these people know how much legitimate email they're missing, for every
spam message that's blocked?

I noticed that from my personal mailbox (which I do filter with spam
assassin), for every one legit mail that gets blocked/tagged by SPEWS,
there's maybe 1-2 junkmails. Thats not a very impressive ratio...