Comments on: We are a no-spam network

By: Walter

Walter — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:05:27 +0000

I am tired of getting fake profiles from:

75.126.17.10

IP address [?]: 75.126.17.10 [Copy][Whois] [Reverse IP]
IP country code: US
IP address country: United States
IP address state: Texas
IP address city: Dallas
IP postcode: 75207
IP address latitude: 32.7825
IP address longitude: -96.8207
ISP of this IP [?]: SoftLayer Technologies
Organization: INH Media
Host of this IP: [?]: muckmakers.com [Whois] [Trace]
Local time in United States: 2009-11-05 21:37

By: Pet Foreclosure Assistance

Pet Foreclosure Assistance — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:04:29 +0000

I am almost brand new to blogging and really like your post, it is really on target.

By: Pat M

Pat M — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:54:06 +0000

I just love your weblog! Very nice post! Still you can do many things to improve it.

By: cfeagans

cfeagans — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:49:50 +0000

This is interesting. Because just today I've received a half-dozen or so spam messages in the comments section of my blog. The IP of each of them resolves to Softlayer Technologies. I've deleted all the comments as spam in my Wordpress dashboard, but I left this one to show others. The comment is always a similar combination of English letters variously represented in upper and lower case. Always just 13 or so characters long and always an email with a first name like Jessie, Alvin or Arthur at a gmail.com domain. Feel free to contact me at my blog or the email attached to this comment regarding this spam. I very curious as to why such a series of characters would be useful.

By: John Rogers

John Rogers — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:28:27 +0000

According to the hostexploit.com document that was responsible for the effective closure of McColo… one of the ‘Toxic Network’ of ISP’s defined as being responsible for hosting spammers and scammers is Softlayer.

Overview of current badness instances (bad data history 05/2006 – 10/2008):
- Pharm & spam = 12,420
- Rogues & Malware = 167
- Infected / badware sites = 1,538 (from 276,480 IP addresses – exploit ratio 0.56%)

My worry is that if McColo can be taken off the web by its connectivity providers, then so can Softlayer!

What are you doing to take active measures against spammers and scammers?

By: micksam7

micksam7 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:53:26 +0000

Great job!

Old hosts I’ve had been with have had many spam issues. I always loved having to answer help requests with bounced e-mail vertification mails.

Now we only have to worry about people not being able to read the capcatchas!

By: dialup_is_mine

dialup_is_mine — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:02:57 +0000

Great work! It is cause to pround. But you should know that sometimes abuses make slight inconvenience to legal clients.

By: Ian Lee

Ian Lee — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:08:41 +0000

For all resellers and web hosting companies using SL as your datacenter, this should be part of your benefits list on your marketing collateral!

As for spamhaus not working, after the first click of “I agree”, you get an error message. Just “Back” and try again. It will work after that

Thanks for the link. Did some checking around and found many other datacenters with listed IP’s on that list! Nicely done SL.

By: Jason Gulledge

Jason Gulledge — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:50:06 +0000

If you’re wondering why the spamhaus site isn’t loading, it’s likely they’re currently being attacked (DoS) by spammers. I hear this is frequently the case.