Re: [nznog] "Captain Bob" and "^god"

He called Quicksilver as well. I told him I didn't think we were a suitable ISP for his needs :) Claire Hurman Quicksilver Internet At 10:28 a.m. 21/03/2003 +1200, Craig Spiers wrote:

I too got a phone call from this guy - He was calling from a west auckland number however.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Lyall" To: Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 10:26 AM Subject: RE: [nznog] "Captain Bob" and "^god"

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Jeremy Clyma wrote:

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So if he truly believes this, "I don't know what the big fuss is for. Haven't they heard of the delete button?" then he shouldn't have an issue with telling the world his real name and address then should he.

I for one look forward to obtaining this information.

There was a guy that called us and at least one other ISP about a month ago who wanted to send around 1 to 5 million spams per week. Called himself Dave (at least when he called us) but he didn't call back (AFAIK) when we weren't very interested.

I've heard mention that at least one NZ ISP is currently applying some pressure on another NZ ISP to clean up their spammers. Note that neither of the ISPs is ihug.

We upgraded some of of our scripts on our mail servers a week or two ago and now we're picking up outgoing spam a lot quicker (usually within a few minutes of it starting) , most of the ones we detect (in NZ at least) are open relay type things however.

I was under the impression that the few number of NZ ISPs, the lack of stupid Australian type laws and the fact that all NZ ISPs were fairly effeciect with fixing spamming customers meant that NZ spammers were pretty much under control.

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