Last night there was a spam post advertising free episodes of South Park. Some of you may have seen it before it was removed this morning by a moderator.

It’s been said that everyone leaves footprints on the web and for those that are interested, below is the information obtained from that spammers internet ip address.

You can see that they are using an address allocated to the University of Boston in the USA. The university has made it easy to report these abuses by providing a phone number and email address for the purpose. Not all ISP’s do this, especially not those in China.

There are websites (such as this one: http://www.blockacountry.com/) that provide information necessary to enable blocking of access to entire countries. I don’t for a moment doubt that there are ways around this form of blocking but if it stops some (most?) of the spam posts, it has to be a plus for us. It will be interesting to see just how well it works over the next few months.

I have no plans to block the US by the way...


OrgName: Boston University
OrgID: BOSU
Address: Information Technology
Address: 111 Cummington Street
City: Boston
StateProv: MA
PostalCode: 02215
Country: US

NetRange: 204.8.152.0 - 204.8.159.255
CIDR: 204.8.152.0/21
NetName: BU-ISP
NetHandle: NET-204-8-152-0-1
Parent: NET-204-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: EDNS01.BU.EDU
NameServer: EDNS02.BU.EDU
NameServer: EDNS03.BU.EDU
Comment:
RegDate: 2004-07-27
Updated: 2004-07-27

RAbuseHandle: IRT1-ARIN
RAbuseName: Intrusion Response Team
RAbusePhone: +1-617-358-1100
RAbuseEmail: IRT@bu.edu

RNOCHandle: NOC319-ARIN
RNOCName: Network Operations Center
RNOCPhone: +1-617-353-2780
RNOCEmail: NOC@nsegc.bu.edu

RTechHandle: VLC-ORG-ARIN
RTechName: von Lichtenberg, Charles
RTechPhone: +1-617-353-2780
RTechEmail: chuckles@bu.edu

OrgAbuseHandle: IRT1-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Intrusion Response Team
OrgAbusePhone: +1-617-358-1100
OrgAbuseEmail: IRT@bu.edu

OrgNOCHandle: NOC319-ARIN
OrgNOCName: Network Operations Center
OrgNOCPhone: +1-617-353-2780
OrgNOCEmail: NOC@nsegc.bu.edu

OrgTechHandle: NOC318-ARIN
OrgTechName: Network Operations Center
OrgTechPhone: +1-617-353-2780
OrgTechEmail: NOC@nsegc.bu.edu