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Want to stop spam? It's up to the users to stop it. To quote Jim Louderback, Editor-in-Chief at PC Magazine:
During the last few days of February (1997) we have seen an incredible amount of new spam that seems to come from a specific black botnet. It involves almost the same message and multiple hosts. This is all illegal, and therefore we request you help us take down the illegal hosts involved sending us this spam as quickly as possible. Here is the host list for this net at the end of February:
IP to Kill Domain to Kill DATE NOTE
We have tracked our spam and phish for over a year now and have found some hosting domains consistently show up on our list of hosts supporting spamming and phishing mail to our system. The long list of IPs and domains involved and how any of them can release themselves from the black list are all available at http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/stopspam.cfm. As a result of this, in doing web development for our clients we NEVER recommend clients using any of these hosts for supporting their web sites.
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are the hosts that are the worst on our list: ameritech.net att.net atx.com auna.net bellsouth.net charter.com chinanet.cn.net (really bad) chinatelecom.com.cn (really bad) cnc-noc.net comcast.net (really bad) convad.net fastwebnet.it fdn.com futwyn79.com geocities.com gte.net home.tiscali.cz interbusiness investorsinsight.com kneebe.com layeredtech.com netplace.ru (really bad) rr.com shawcable.net verizon.net
We also could list various foreign hosts, particularly China hosts. We'll expand this further in the near future. We could also list godaddy.com, which is a registrar that lists any garbage domain. Don't expect the search engines to find you you when using registrars or hosts that support spamming sites. Even if a search engine ranks you well now, the better engines (such as Google with over 50% of the search engine traffic) are getting more intelligent and will eventually learn to drop your rank or altogether. Using a spamming host is a no-no for Google.
In the case of Comcast, for example, one of our clients complained that their outgoing mail was blocked. His outgoing mail went through Comcast. Sure enough, the Comcast IP for the mail was on a commercial black list. It wasn't our fault, his fault, or the fault of his host. Comcast was totally unresponsive and would do nothing about it. His host (oneworldhosting.com) removed this block from his system's commercial mail filter for his mail. In other words apparently Comcast, which uses dynamic addressing, assigned him a black-listed IP that had been used for illegal activity by a previous host using my client's IP. That IP eventually was assigned to him. Comcast would do nothing about it and this cost me time and money. In other words, these hosts are more interested in the profit from illegal spamming sites than doing what is moral and ethically right.
Help us destroy any of the hosting abiltiy of these sites until they can take responsibility for sending us their garbage. We black list the hosts, then send the info to the government to prosecute. We also send the info to the hackers. Whoever stops them first wins. The government has laws to stop this, but they must enforce them. They don't, and a lot of politicans will lose in the next election. If the hosts and the government don't take responsibility and the users don't, the hackers win. We encourge other users to create their own black lists.
None of these hosts currently listed have paid me anything for illegally spamming and phishing my system. Users, you have final responsibility and authority for your system. Refuse to use these as hosting sites and blacklist the IPs of the spammering hosts to your system with a list on your web site so that the hosts are forced to respond and remain stable. You can't win unless you take authority.
If you wish to be removed from this list, directions are at http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/stopspam.cfm. For removal, the cost is $300 for the first spam or phish and $150 for each additional. Payments to OPM, 8325 SW Mohawk #48, Tualatin, OR 97062 USA. The true cost of this garbage to our system is much higher - you are really getting a break. All of the income is used to fight this spam.
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