Re: McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked Offline

[Michael Collins <mcollins () aleae com>]

We used to see, with worms, that people would put up rules blocking  
that particular port for two weeks, and then pull 'em down.  The net  
result was that you'd see a spike in the same worm two weeks after the  
initial outbreak.  I think the problem we're dealing with here is more  
of a basic unwillingness to look at a global common solution.  It'd be  
too much like a government, and who wants to be that?

On Nov 13, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Peter Evans wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:28:57AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> > And that's the most interesting part of the story. Clearly, many of  
> > us
> > "out here" could see that McColo, like Atrivo/Intercage, was a major
> > source of badness.  Why couldn't the providers servicing them -- who
> > quite obviously had access to far more data than any of us -- see the
> > same thing?
>
>       Basic human nature, Greed, a tinge of sloth and allow to ferment
>       for 6 months before consuming.
>
>       Given the current mess, would you throw away a steady income?
>
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