I agree, yes it will, but it was nice to see proven the ability to fight the trash out there. Actually, coincidently I was installing new AV SW on out pub DNS and SMTP gateways the same time they got there plug pulled, I thought I was breaking stuff on my end, but not as the news hit the list a short time after I started updating. And in my previous post I meant tremendous drop. -----Original Message----- From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge@linuxbox.org] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 6:36 PM To: Dave Larter Cc: Matthew Black; NANOG list Subject: RE: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams andSpamsKnockedOffline (fwd) On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Dave Larter wrote:
I would agree, a tedious drop. The image is from one of our gateways.
Spam will be back. The value is that we see networks no longer willing to accept bad apples among them. There are other pros and cons, but if nothing else, it's a moral victory and makes some of us feel good--finally.
-----Original Message----- From: Matthew Black [mailto:black@csulb.edu] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 10:56 AM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams andSpamsKnockedOffline (fwd)
Since McColo, et al., cutting off those miscreant customers on Wednesday, I've noticed a huge decline in connection attempts to our e-mail gateways. Even if their efforts are temporary, the change is quite noticeable.
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