Larry Sheldon wrote:
..in other news (that seems to have attracted little attention)...
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/07/73000-blogs-shu.html
73000 Internet "sites" where shutdown by somebody, for something.
"BurstNet, the Web-hosting company, informed Blogetery's operator that service was terminated at the request of some law enforcement agency but wouldn't say which one. As for the reason, BurstNet hasn't made that clear either. In an e-mail to Blogetery's operator, BurstNet managers did say that they had little choice but to terminate service." Burstnet huh? Somehow I am not surprised. Currently I have the below in my blocklists. Since this company facilitates spammers and other dubious activity and doesn't look like it hosts much legitimate content. Maybe the shutdown was an attempt to combat spam? (yeah right!). I suggest everyone adds these to their blocklists: # Hostnoc/Burstnet - 31032010 64.120.128.0/17 64.191.0.0/17 66.96.192.0/18 66.197.128.0/17 96.9.128.0/18 173.212.192.0/18 184.82.0.0/16 I should add that I have personally found proof of brute force break in attempts to a company's systems coming from at least one of those IP ranges. -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html