Path: nntp1.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com! news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!pln-w!spln!dex! extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!steve From: Steve Linford Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: AT&T signs bulk hosting contract with spammers Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 08:47:34 +0000 Organization: The Spamhaus Project Lines: 37 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: p-107.newsdawg.com Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.0 (PPC) Xref: nntp1.ba.best.com news.admin.net-abuse.email:47845 (This was sent to AT&T yesterday) AT&T, The Spamhaus Project has just received a fax copy of a Bulk Hosting contract written and signed by AT&T and sent to a known spamhaus, NEVADA HOSTING (ATT.NET block NETBLK-NEVADAHOSTING-242, 12.36.242.0 - 12.36.242.255) in which AT&T agrees to provide NEVADA HOSTING with Bulk Hosting for spamming purposes. A copy of this fax is now at http://spamhaus.org/rokso/nevadahosting.jpg This fax proves that AT&T knowingly does business with spammers, and shows that AT&T makes 'pink' contracts with known spammers to not terminate the spammers services knowing full well that the only way it can provide this service is to either ignore or bin spam complaints on such "bulk hosted" web sites. Here is an extract from the pink contract which says this: "NevadaHosting wishes to operate Bulk Hosted Web Sites. Bulk Hosting is defined as hosting a web site that is Spammed from other gateways. NevadaHosting only hosts the web site that is advertized in the Spam. AT&T Agrees that it will not terminate the provision of services to NevadaHosting because of NevadaHosting's operation of Bulk Hosted Web Sites" AT&T Abuse will appreciate that I am now going to make this contract public, and of course it will be passed to the MAPS RBL team. Therefore it is very important that this communication is passed to AT&T Management now. Steve Linford The Spamhaus Project http://www.spamhaus.org