Don't spam!There are better waysto get rich quick: 
 by Lawrence Lessig
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There will be a day when folks will need to pay to transit email. (Paul Vixie, 1998)
The following information was accurate and well-documented at the time of publishing.
where was the Japanese connection?Follow the hidden trail. A paragraph extracted from the MAPS RSS FAQ at http://maps.vix.com/rss/faq.html reveals:
Isn't performing an open relay check network abuse? No; not in our opinion, and not in the opinion of our internet service provider.
First, MAPS RSS has already received evidence of an unsolicited email advertisement
from the relay; second, we clearly describe our intent in the exchange with the other
machine; third, we send a message back to MAPS RSS, not to an unwilling third party.
Finally, a relay test uses less than 2k of the server's space for an average of 30
seconds or less; this is less than one tenth of one percent of what the average spam
run uses when it exploits open relays.
# nslookup maps.vix.com # nslookup mail-abuse.org Non-authoritative answer: Non-authoritative answer: Name: maps.vix.com Name: mail-abuse.org Address: 204.152.184.74 Address: 204.152.184.74
# traceroute maps.vix.com As traced above, all traffic for the MAPS blackhole list lookup points to ip 204.152.184.74, which is controlled by Vixie Enterprises, which is connected by Verio (unnamed ip 207.21.144.250 is in non-portable CIDR block NET-VRIO-207-021-00), which ISP gave the blessing and is now owned by a Japanese telco.
The communications break with Verio NTT is absolute: we can't even complain to them about verio.net user originated spam (click HERE to view Verio spam examples). Yet Verio never complained to us about receiving spam from NetSide users! They are blocking us simply because NetSide Corporation's SMTP server mailhost.netside.net [205.159.140.2] was included on big brother's MAPS RSS list for being an "open relay". Needless to say that the spam message which got our mail server blacklisted was easily traceable to a customer of Corecomm, a Chicago-based ISP. Their nose is clean, and we got bloodied... On the other hand, Verio has been known to engage in boiler room marketing operations of their own. In an Aug 3, 2000 press release, Register.com announced that a law suit was filed in New York federal court, alleging that "Verio compiled massive lists of Register.com new customers and deluged them with unsolicited marketing messages". Does Verio NTT hosts spammers' web sites? You bet your sushi, Masanobu! Greedy NTT now has to recoup the cost of their $5.5 billion investment and are trolling the bottom for customers. HERE is proof that a site that promotes through spam, owned by a certain Stan Niggah, is hosted by Verio NTT. Needless to say that we can't even complain to them about the spammer, because Verio uses the MAPS blackhole lists and refuse our emails. Now which ISP would host a customer who promotes through spam and displays a credit fixing fly-by-night page like THIS? Verio NTT, the host of Vixie's mail-abuse.org, that's who... They can do it, who's going to blacklist them?
all routes lead to MetromediaVerio connected the former M.I.B.H. (mibh.net), one of Vixie's companies. In all fairness to Verio NTT, we need to mention that vix.com and mail-abuse.org are now multihomed. After all, M.I.B.H. was bought out by Metromedia Fiber Network (NASDAQ:MFNX). The second route is through (you guessed), ABOVE.NET (unnamed ip 208.184.102.10 that connects to Vixie's pla1a.feed1.pla.mibh.net [204.152.184.195] is in non-portable CIDR block NETBLK-ABOVENET-6). So this must be the other ISP which gave the blessing.
what happened?As previously mentioned, Vixie's direct peering route through Verio NTT's network just became history in the early days of January 2001. MAPS traffic now routes through PAIX, the "neutral" exchange controlled by Metromedia/Abovenet. Perhaps Masanobu had second thoughts about ruling the Net? Nah, it was probably the Japanese Fair Trade Commission investigation, which got wind of their monopolistic practices and started breeding down their neck. Or was it the FBI? Or the Verio vs. Register.com and ICANN skirmish? Or the changing of the guard at the White House? We'll probably never know for sure... All we know is that Vixie suddenly renamed his ips from something.mibh.net (Men In Black Hats/Helicopters) to something.unnwo.net, which stands for "United Nations New World Order". How appropriate! The only thing missing is Kurt Waldheim as secretary general...
verio muzzles free speech advocateIf you think that's the end of Verio's involvement in the MAPS conspiracy, you're wrong. The Nippons recently struck at John Gilmore, a free speech advocate and co-founder of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation, best known for the Blue Ribbon Campaign). You may read all about it on his toad.com web site.
disclaimerNothing that was published here should be taken as supportive toward the sending of Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE). NetSide Corporation does not support spam or spammers in any form, and actively fights email abuse by reporting UBE to the spammer's upstream provider in each incident. We do disconnect users that send UBE from our system, and do not provide safe harbor to web sites that promote through spam. We don't complain about email filtering in principle, and believe each ISP should be free to set their own in-house email policy. We strongly warn the public that the creation of a central blackhole list controlled by some self-appointed big brother entity is vulnerable to abuse of monopoly power over world-wide electronic communications. NetSide believes this to be a good cause to fight for, and we urge everyone, including federal regulators if that's what it takes, to get involved before it's too late. For published news and information about blackholed companies, visit the BLACKHOLED! page.
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