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RE: sprint
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 20:39:02 +0000
At 4:51 pm +0000 (GMT) 28/1/02, paul@localhost wrote:
I think it's ingrained Sprint policy to never admit to anything, never mention "spam" and never talk to those dastardly anti-spammers. Sprint was a tough one, I don't know of any other US backbone that had the long-term spam problems Sprint has had and managed to completely ignore complaints for so long. All other backbones I can think of have at least an abuse desk with a desk, Sprint seemed to have used just a big trash can.Steve Linford wrote:The problem left is that Sprint are incredibly slow, getting them to do anything about spammers with T1s (most of the spam gangs do) is like dragging an elephant up a hill, their lawyers need endless evidence. So the situation is "keep yelling at them" or they'll slow down again, but "don't yell too much" now as we may have cracked it finally.Thanks for this. It seems that our statements are indeed true but that (hopefully) Sprint is acting to deal with the problem. I certainly won't do anything to upset the 'spam cannon disarmament process'. It will be interesting to see whether the legal department admits the problem and claims they're dealing with it or (as I suspect is more likely) ignore our questions and send a vague response back. I do wonder why, if they are dealing with the problem as you suggest, they are so reluctant to publicize the fact. I would have thought a simple message confirming the problems would have been more effective that a stonewall response of simply ignoring or denying the problem.
The spammers Sprint are finally in the process of kicking off are of course already set up on Qwest and CW, and SpamCop is currently pouring complaints into CW on them. I'm sure CW will ignore complaints for about another week-10 days, then the same gangs will move everything onto Qwest, there will be a fight with Qwest who'll reluctantly throw the gangs off after about 3 weeks and the whole entourage will all go to Broadwing...
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Steve Linford
The Spamhaus Project
http://www.spamhaus.org
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