From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 06:55:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C74716A415 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:55:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from techie@tantivy.tantivy.net) Received: from smtp2.stanford.edu (smtp2.Stanford.EDU [171.67.20.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A4843D45 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:55:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from techie@tantivy.tantivy.net) Received: from smtp2.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EA4D4C1CF; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tantivy.tantivy.net (tantivy.Stanford.EDU [171.66.118.251]) by smtp2.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E334C0F5; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tantivy.tantivy.net (techie@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by tantivy.tantivy.net (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k946teBu006114; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from techie@tantivy.tantivy.net) Received: (from techie@localhost) by tantivy.tantivy.net (8.13.8/8.13.4/Submit) id k946tdVI006113; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:55:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from techie) From: Bob Vaughan Message-Id: <200610040655.k946tdVI006113@tantivy.tantivy.net> In-Reply-To: <200610031837.49696.howells@kde.org> To: Chris Howells Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:55:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:55:57 -0000 > On Monday 02 October 2006 21:16, Roland Smith wrote: > > > Well, these are the same guys that bought a license from SCO for SCO's > > alleged "IP" in Linux (and alledgedly in *BSD, before the settlement in > > USL vs BSDi was made public). Apparently after a large > > bribe^H^H^H^H^Hdiscount from Microsoft. > > > > Definitely not the sharpest knife in the drawer, IMHO. But maybe I'm > > being too harsh. > > Someone used them to post a large amount of blog spam to my blog from some of > their servers for a period of quite a few weeks. They did nothing, not even > reply, despite various abuse reports. They are nothing but pathetic. > I got tired of getting carpetbombed(1) with spam originated from EV1 servers day after day, with no meaningful response.. They hold the distinction of being the only US ISP that has ALL of their IP space in my blocklist. (1) where I would get a couple spams from here, and a couple spams from there, with EV1 it was a couple dozen at a time.. Gets old real fast. -- -- Welcome My Son, Welcome To The Machine -- Bob Vaughan | techie @ tantivy.net | | P.O. Box 19792, Stanford, Ca 94309 | -- I am Me, I am only Me, And no one else is Me, What could be simpler? --