[SC-Help] Re: "Consumer Research Corp" SPAMMING - XO IP Block 69.67.72.0/21

[Berny]

"Steve Johnson" <steevian at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1.1116320474.169.spamcop-help at news.spamcop.net...
> According to this, the block where SPAM is coming from "69.67.72.0/21"
belongs to
> XO:
>
> http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS2828
>
>
> I have called XO about 4 times and all I get is them totally denying this
block
> isnot theirs & one person in their Ops even laughed at the suggestion.
>
> Anyone who is interested, please help me in pressuring "XO" to try a
little harder
> to be a responsible ISP, thanks!
>
> Here's a small sample of the intense SPAMMING from this "XO CUSTOMER:"
>
> SNIP
> > Received: from 69.67.72.70  (EHLO eicmssgnq.tradepointone.com)
> > SNIP
> > Received: from 69.67.72.67  (EHLO hibibivv.tradepointone.com)
> > (69.67.72.67)
> > SNIP
> > Received: from 69.67.72.59  (EHLO dwxprco.freeserving.com)
> > (69.67.72.59)
> >  SNIP
> > Received: from 69.67.72.61  (EHLO nxjjjgidssf.tradepointone.com)
> > (69.67.72.61)
> >  SNIP
> > Received: from 69.67.72.21  (EHLO vsgwsqbrgli.servingones.com)
> > (69.67.72.21)
SNIPPED

Yep same trash I've been getting since he started spamming me from
CalPOP/ATMLinkinc using a site at MCI some 6 or more months back.

There used to be a site that listed email addies of lawyers for, and senior
management of ISP's so you could gripe, but it got shut down a few years
back, it was called the bitch-list or something like that.

Basically you have a few tactics, you can try to discover email addresses
for investor relations, Senior VP's and up, and start bitching (politely and
professionally) about their spam in the Yahoo group for their stock. You can
possibly complain upstream if they are a subsidiary of a larger comms
company.  That was a tactic that either worked or was concident with the
Verio cleanup. (have seen only 2 spams and 3 spamvertizers from Verio in
some 2 years and I get a lot (300+/day) of spam.) Complaints were being sent
to NTT at the time.

I have no idea who owns XO. I've found remarks in certain newsgroups like :
"is so and so near bankruptcy?" --- "they are going after spam gang
business" for example. That sort of tactic (with others) has managed to
annoy MCI enough to kick some spammers/spam support services eventually
(although in that case they already were in Ch.11).