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RSAWeb (sort of) responds

Shortly after my post revealing that RSAWeb (among others) provide hosting for known South African spammers, I got an email from their Technical Director, Mark Slingsby, asking how recent my lookups were1, and requesting me to name the offenders2 so that his sysadmin team can follow up. I replied with a detailed response, noting that [...]

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2010 02 18 Simeon Miteff General
Regulatory
Technical Comments (0)

ISPA members provide hosting for local spammers

This morning I read this article on MyBroadband about the ISPA “hall of shame” list of South African spammers, and conducted a quick (somewhat non-scientific) investigation to see where the mail servers for the domains provided on the ISPA list are hosted. After filtering out domains without MX records, MX records without valid A records, [...]

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2010 02 12 Simeon Miteff General
Regulatory
Technical Comments (1)

Compromise on Infraco’s service license

According to the Broadband Infraco act, the new state-owned-enterprise is supposed to be issued both IECS and IECNS licenses (what I like to call the happy-meal license combo), enabling them to provide retail and wholesale services, respectively. The act mandates Infraco to drastically lower the price of national backbone bandwidth. It seems I was overly [...]

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2009 09 16 Simeon Miteff Regulatory Comments (1)