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Re: Israeli spammers (Was: goldfish spamming)



On Wed, 16 May 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 06:22:57PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > The most annoying Israeli spammer lately, from where I'm sitting, is
> > fixfax.co.il. Another spammer, advertising some book about a conspiracy
> > theory of Rabin's murder, had a virus (the Fix2001 W32 Worm) so the two
> > spams I got from him were followed by two virus messages. As usual, I
> > contacted his ISP but they seem to be doing nothing about it (I'm not
> > going to say which ISP, so people don't start comparing ISPs again...).
> 
> Oh, I've got the FixFax thing too. Traced them, mailed abuse@012.net,
> and it bounced back (what a surprise!).
> 
> Later on, I phoned 012.net and spent some 15 minutes explaining the
> person on the other side (probably support's supervisor) why spam is
> wrong. "So, go to your Outlook Express menu and add a filter" ...
> 
> I was thinking ISOC should take care of the ISP "education". Since ISPs
> are interested in IIX peering etc., maybe ISOC should force
> participating ISPs to have non-abuse-tolerant AUPs and active spam
> departments? I emailed ISOC about this, but all Hank Nussbacher told

Hank is not the address, Doron Shikmoni is, IMHO.

 - yba

> me was that there's also abuse@att.net.il (hey, that's the 3rd ISP
> in Israel, after NetVision and Zahav).
> I'm in no position to tell them what to do though :)
> 
> 

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