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[SpamCop-List] Re: Road Runner spam haven?

Asterix asterix at no_where.net
Sun Aug 14 13:17:10 EDT 2005


Cat <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:

> Is there some address other than the abuse address where I can forward
> Road Runner complaints? I'm getting swamped daily with this one 
> particular spammer through several different hosts, one of which is Road
> Runner. They're all usually pill spam from names like Slides P. Valet,
> Harasses K. Covenanted, Artful L. Cabrera, and others. Some of them come
> from Road Runner, who appears to ignore spam complaints. I'm tired of
> these and want them to stop.

Most spam comes from PCs hijacked by trojans as open proxys. 
Since RR has a lot of users you'd expect a fair number of their 
customers' PCs to be hijacked.
If you uses Spamcop's web interface for reporting, you'll see the line:

24.27.106.120 is an open proxy

ever so often.

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