Something happened today that we feel everyone should be aware of: We currently have no SBL listings for our IP space and we were recognized by the Spamhaus Team as a proactive no-spam-tolerance network.
Our hard work here at keeping spammers off of the network, and our reaction when they do make it on has been recognized.
If you visit the Spamhaus ISP page, type in softlayer.com. You will find something that is very rare and something we are very proud of. To be recognized in this manner means a great deal to us.
Abuse is something that happens, there is no way around it. What does matter is how we are perceived to handle the situation, and working day in and day out with other abuse desks and networks does indeed pay off.
June 27th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
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.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
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.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:02 am
Great work! It is cause to pround. But you should know that sometimes abuses make slight inconvenience to legal clients.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:53 am
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!