[SURBL-Discuss] Recently whitelisted

Rob McEwen rob at powerviewsystems.com
Wed Oct 20 22:51:37 CEST 2004


Jeff said:

>I somewhat disagree with that premise. There's a disincentive
>for shared hosting companies to allow their services to be
>abused since it adds to their traffic and support costs and
>gains them little.  Abuses at legitimate providers tends to
>be a money loser.  On the other hand if they ignore abuse
>complaints they can save on immediate support costs.

Good point. I think that this certainly causes this problem to be
"minimized". But, I still see a "niche" area where spamming "paths" pop up
quickly and where some of these are not taken down in a timely manner.

For example, there was one spammer from a large hosting company in Spain
(terra.es) who sent spam for **months** before finally being shut down. It
was easy for me to manually blacklist them... but I wonder how many others
are like this one who use the same URL long enough to warrant being added to
**some** kind of list, but who are not so obnoxiously proliferate so as to
catch my individual attention.

Rob McEwen




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