Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:22:42 -0800
From:                   Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>

> On Monday, Security Fix contacted the Internet providers that manage more
> than 90 percent of the company's connection to the larger Internet, sending them
> information about badness at McColo as documented by the security industry.

> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/major_source_of_online
> _scams_a.html

Interesting.  Recently one address fell from about 300 spam per day down to about 
50.  Another went from roughly 150 down to about 20.  However, that was about 
two weeks ago, not Monday.

(Also, has been slowly climbing since.)

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