On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, George Roettger wrote:
This process happens repeatedly, spammers know they can get about a month of time (or more, depending on upstreams and hosting providers in question) of life, either way it's just 50 bucks....
forgive my question, but why does it take a month? If you had a bad route causing an outage for the spammer, would it take a month for the involved ISPs to fix that?
spammer comes, starts work, spams, complaints arrive, downstream customer is notified of 'problem', they get their 3 strikes to deal with said problem, then the ip is null routed. Sometimes it's a month, sometimes less. It's situationally dependent :( I picked a round number because saying: "Spammers get 9.759 days on average per webhosting adventure" is cumbersome.