Dear colleagues

In february this year we detected a lot of spam, being sent from dial-up accounts in the responsibility of AS9145.

Those spam emails are sent from the well known swiss spamer 'Martin Fürst' who won't get internet-access at almost all ISP in Switzerland and many more in UK Germany and China.

I had quite a few phone calls with EWETEL techs and finaly with their law responsible (Mr. Heder.)

As I understood their policy does not allow them to block internet-access to the customer sending those spam mails. (Nor to reveal his identity which I never asked for... he is too well known).

Today more spam-mails with typical 'Martin Fürst' signatures arrived to various spam-traps and customer addresses.

Unfortunately right now I was not able to catch Mr. Heder, and on the support number they again didn't want to put me through to the abuse-desk responsible or to the management, ceo or cto of EWETEL.

So I think time has come the ISP running mailservers affected by those spam-floods from EWETEL have to put up a bit more pressure.

We are considering filtering AS9145 on our routers and to list the IP-ranges of AS9145 on the SWINOG Antispam Blacklists; if we still don't get the reply from EWETEL that this customer is definitively banned from their network within a few days.

What are your opinions? Would other ISP join?

Mit freundlichen Grüssen

Benoit Panizzon -- I m p r o W a r e A G - System Services ______________________________________________________

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