Spamhaus TOP 10 lists
By ArnY on Saturday 2 December 2006, 19:13 - spam - Permalink
Spamhaus is a well known organisation tracking spams and
spammers. It offers services like the Spamhaus Block List and the Exploits
Block List which are both realtime block list to be used with your mail
servers. Spamhaus also tracks spammers and publishes data about them:
For example, the worste spammer today is an ukrainian citizen named Alex Polyakov also known as Alex Blood, Alexander Mosh, etc. (Alex Polyakov is the big Soviet spy character in John LeCarre's spy novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.").
Anyway, Spamhaus does also something very interesting: TOP 10 lists of the worst spam spreading ISPs, worst spam spreading countries and of course, worst (or best?) spammers.
Also interesting: France isn't ranked in the TOP10 list but my french ISP proxad.net is ranked 6th as for today. Proxad's public ISP branch (Free.fr) announced that they will start blocking outgoing SMTP traffic from their clients unless the client manually activate the port on their control panel. I'll sure keep an eye on this list to see how proxad evolves.