How is it arrogant? I read that as: a customer set up an exploitable FormMail. Verio received notice about it. Verio removed the FormMail in question. Verio asked to be removed since they corrected the problem. Verio was ignored. Verio may have some problems with not terminating spammers, and I believe this to be the truth -- I buy from verio, and Don't spam, and whenever one of my clients spam, they get terminated for it. I receive plenty of spam from verio ips, and no matter how much I complain, it never gets terminated. This is probably a scenario of asking sales rep "If I want to spam, but I pay more per meg -- Is this OK?" and getting a positive answer. That is why the NANAE people don't like verio. But, nonetheless, I don't think that putting verio's mailserver on a formmail list is accomplishing anything good, since they fixed THAT problem... --Phil -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Kai Schlichting Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 6:37 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Cc: Kai Schlichting Subject: Re: verio arrogance How's THIS for Verio arrogance, going to a whole new level: http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/filtering/verio-demand.ps Details were on the SPAM-L list Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:51:05 EDT: Verio threatens to sue Ron Guilmette over the IP 208.55.91.59 appearing on his FormMail.pl open-proxy/formmail server DNSBL. And given the ever-increasing number of spammers now hopping onto Verio tells me that Verio must be well down the spiral of death (spammers seem to be attracted by NSP's going chapter 7/11, or who are getting close), or else the dozen-or-so automated messages going to abuse@verio.net every week complaining about connections (real or attempted) to hosts under my control, and originating from their spamming customers would have shown any results over time. I don't need connectivity to 208.55.0.0/16. I really don't, and I have not the slightest tolerance for litigious, small-minded, panic-lawyer-dialling scum like this. /etc/mail$ grep 208.55 access.local 208.55 550 Access for FormMail spam and litigious scum denied - XXXX Verio in their XXXXXXXX XXX - we block more than just 208.55.91.59 - Spammers must die - see http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/filtering/verio-demand.ps /etc/mail$ PS: I also have zero tolerance for Nadine-type spam-generating, "single-opt-in", "87% permission-based" emailers nowadays: 2 bounces or a single mail to a never-existing account, and all your /24's are off into gated.conf as a next-hop route to 127.0.0.1. And no, they won't get around that by advertising /25's. Good-bye route-prefix-filtering wars, and welcome to the war on spam, where Null0'd /28's for filtering 'undesirables' just doesn't cut it any more. Casualties like 10-15 bystanding rackspace.com customers with a "Nadine- type" mailer in neighboring IP space be damned: "move your servers into a different slum, cause da landlord's running down 'da neighborhood". -- "Just say No" to Spam Kai Schlichting New York, Palo Alto, You name it Sophisticated Technical Peon Kai's SpamShield <tm> is FREE! http://www.SpamShield.org | | | LeasedLines-FrameRelay-IPLs-ISDN-PPP-Cisco-Consulting-VoiceFax-Data-Muxe s WorldWideWebAnything-Intranets-NetAdmin-UnixAdmin-Security-ReallyHardMat h