Spam continues to plague the Internet because a small number of large Internet Service Providers sell service knowingly to professional spammers for profit, or do nothing to prevent spammers operating from their networks.
Although all networks claim to be anti-spam, some network executives factor revenue made from hosting known spam gangs into corporate policy decisions to continue to sell services to spam operations. Others simply decide that closing the holes in their end-user broadband systems that allow spammers access would be too costly to their bottom lines.
The majority of the world's service providers succeed in keeping spammers off their networks and work to maintain a positive anti-spam reputation, but their work is undermined daily by the few networks such as these who, out of corporate greed or mismanagement, choose to be part of the problem.
Note EU-Digest: Spam continues to plague the Internet because a small
number of large Internet Service Providers sell service knowingly to
professional spammers for profit, or do nothing to prevent spammers
operating from their networks.
Although all networks claim to be anti-spam, some network
executives factor revenue made from hosting known spam gangs into
corporate policy decisions to continue to sell services to spam
operations. Others simply decide that closing the holes in their
end-user broadband systems that allow spammers access would be too
costly to their bottom lines.
The majority of the world's service providers succeed in
keeping spammers off their networks and work to maintain a positive
anti-spam reputation, but their work is undermined daily by the few
networks such as these who, out of corporate greed or mismanagement,
choose to be part of the problem.
Note EU-Digest: The Spamhaus Project is an international nonprofit
organization whose mission is to track the Internet's spam operations
and sources, to provide dependable realtime anti-spam protection for
Internet networks, to work with Law Enforcement Agencies to identify and
pursue spam gangs worldwide, and to lobby governments for effective
anti-spam legislation.
Founded in 1998, Spamhaus is based in
Geneva, Switzerland and London, UK and is run by a dedicated team of 38
investigators and forensics specialists located in 10 countries.
Spamhaus maintains a number of realtime spam-blocking databases
('DNSBLs') responsible for keeping back the vast majority of spam sent
out on the Internet. These include the Spamhaus Block List (SBL), the
Exploits Block List (XBL), the Policy Block List (PBL) and the Domain
Block List (DBL). Spamhaus DNSBLs are today used by the majority of the
Internet's Email Service Providers, Corporations, Universities,
Governments and Military networks.
To see the list and and to read more: Spamhaus: The Top 10 World's Worst Spam Support ISPs
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