DIYbanter - _Sources_ for carnide chain in the US?

In article ,
Old Nick wrote:
On 22 Jun 2004 22:33:35 -0400, (DoN. Nichols)
vaguely proposed a theory
......and in reply I say!:

remove ns from my header address to reply via email

I had a fax AND email from them G

Great!

Their web site host has been under fire from hackers, they are saying,
and has been down a lot lately.

That could explain a lot.

They have reported the Australian disconneection to their ISP.

O.K. I hope that cleans up.

So we shall see..

Funny I just sent them an email via my ISP's online email site, and it
has not bounced.

Perhaps a different IP block. Also, did you get an actual
bounce from the previous? If not, was it just a disappearing into the
bit bucket of your e-mail (e.g. no indication of *anything* happening?

[ ... ]

So -- someone has sent a lot of spam from somewhere in the same
class-C or class-B block (likely several addresses within that range),
and this could block e-mail *to* the company, if the company's ISP uses
one of those blocklists.

This _could_ be why my ISP's online stuff may be getting through. It
probably has a completely different address.

Agreed.

These guys are "backboned" by another company, with whom I have had
many discussions (you were involved in that thread too, IIRC) about
spam and hits on my firewall, so far without much success.

Yep.

I reckon the "culprit" here is that every time I log on I get a
different IP..no? Therefore I can "inherit" some other scumbag's dirty
laundry.

And it is not just the scumbags, but also those made victim by a
virus infection. The infection installs a backdoor, which a scumbag
somewhere else use to turn that victim's machine into a spam engine,
until the victim runs a virus scan because the machine seems so slow
whenever it is connected to the net.

[ ... ]

I'm afraid that the only way to be *sure* of reaching them (for
you) is a phone call -- or perhaps snail-mail.

Fax has worked, as I said. Phone would soon run up any savings in
chain, and there is the time difference.

Yes -- it all depends on how desperate you are to get the
information.

Or *perhaps* you could get a free hotmail account which you
could access from OZ, and mail as though from in the USA.

Hehe! I hope only good ears are reading this stuff! G

The bad ones already *know* about free hotmail accounts. And I
think that hotmail does a good job of blocking sending of e-mails direct
from/to port 25 on client machines, so the spam software is forced to go
through hotmail's own mail servers, which can (and probably do, by now)
filter for virii and spam.

Apparently, at least one of the large ISPs in the US has
*finally* started blocking port-25 traffic from DSL accounts. It has to
now go to their mail server via PPP (which is purely a
client-to-mail-server protocol, and can't be used to bypass the ISP's
mail server and push spam (or virii) out without any controls.

Only business accounts have direct port 25 access, now, on those
ISPs, and those who use that for spam can be detected and shut down.

Anyway. I live and learn. Thanks for all your interest.

Best of luck,
DoN.
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