DomainBop
Dormant VPSB Pathogen
Time for a quick update because Spamhaus escalated another /17 today. That makes 3 x /15 and 2 x /17 on SBL's. A total of 459,984 of ColoCrossing's 724,480 IP addresses are now blacklisted by Spamhaus. That is 63.5%.
Biloh's slimy salesman spiel excuses for the SPAM and blacklistings (the "they just don't understand the commodity VPS cloud market" bullshit) that he has been using to try to explain the blacklistings might fool some of his puppy dogs like mpkossen but it isn't fooling Spamhaus, and rumor has it the likelihood of more large blocks being blacklisted and if necessary the entire AS 36352 is very real. Spamhaus is also still advising its users to block all SMTP traffic coming from ColoCrossing IP space.
With 63.5% of IPs now blacklisted Biloh may need to revise downward his $12 million revenue projection for the current fiscal year...and if the entire ASN gets whacked he may need to do a fire sale.
Biloh and his underlings have been feeding hosting providers on their network who are affected by the blacklistings a steaming pile of bullshit and telling them the SBL's will be cleaned up soon. It won't be soon. The large blocks aren't going to be removed until the CC IP space has been cleaned and CC shows it is fighting SPAM proactively and has implemented measures to reduce the volume of SPAM coming from its network, rather than only making token gestures (i.e. lying to Spamhaus) after an IP gets placed on an SBL. .
Since Biloh and Vial seem rather dense, I'll repeat what Spamhaus has told them repeatedly:
1. implement rate limiting on outbound SMTP traffic
2. require ID verification of all new users on the CC network until ColoCrossing has proven that they are working to proactively fight SPAM.
Implementing those 2 steps isn't an option any more...it's a requirement if CC wants to get out of the doghouse.
Biloh's slimy salesman spiel excuses for the SPAM and blacklistings (the "they just don't understand the commodity VPS cloud market" bullshit) that he has been using to try to explain the blacklistings might fool some of his puppy dogs like mpkossen but it isn't fooling Spamhaus, and rumor has it the likelihood of more large blocks being blacklisted and if necessary the entire AS 36352 is very real. Spamhaus is also still advising its users to block all SMTP traffic coming from ColoCrossing IP space.
With 63.5% of IPs now blacklisted Biloh may need to revise downward his $12 million revenue projection for the current fiscal year...and if the entire ASN gets whacked he may need to do a fire sale.
Biloh and his underlings have been feeding hosting providers on their network who are affected by the blacklistings a steaming pile of bullshit and telling them the SBL's will be cleaned up soon. It won't be soon. The large blocks aren't going to be removed until the CC IP space has been cleaned and CC shows it is fighting SPAM proactively and has implemented measures to reduce the volume of SPAM coming from its network, rather than only making token gestures (i.e. lying to Spamhaus) after an IP gets placed on an SBL. .
Since Biloh and Vial seem rather dense, I'll repeat what Spamhaus has told them repeatedly:
1. implement rate limiting on outbound SMTP traffic
2. require ID verification of all new users on the CC network until ColoCrossing has proven that they are working to proactively fight SPAM.
Implementing those 2 steps isn't an option any more...it's a requirement if CC wants to get out of the doghouse.
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