Scam-Linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out 102
alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The lifeline linking notorious service provider Intercage to the rest of the Internet has been severed. Intercage, which has also done business under the name Atrivo, was knocked offline late Saturday night when the last upstream provider connecting it to the Internet's backbone, Pacific Internet Exchange, terminated Intercage's service. Intercage president Emil Kacperski said Pacific did not tell him why his company had been knocked offline, but he believes it was in response to pressure from Spamhaus, a volunteer-run antispam group, which has been highly critical of Intercage's business practices."
That's why! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's why! (Score:3, Funny)
That's awesome! Just imagine all the penis enlargement pills you'll be able to order now!
Re:Severs them right! (Score:5, Funny)
Nice typo in the title - very appropriate slip.
Re:That's why! (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing. I got an offer this morning of $700B, with little oversight and no accountability. All I have to do is prove that I recklessly lost hundreds of billions of investor capital.
Easy fix for them (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's why! (Score:5, Funny)
Nigerian Mortgage Enlargement Pills.
Re:That's why! (Score:2, Funny)
Look, you commie, if we don't pay our CEOs hundreds of millions of dollars, how can we be assured that we're getting the best? Do you know how long it might have taken to rape you all for hundreds of billions of dollars and then stick you with the bill for the rape exam kit if we had to make do with substandard CEOs?
Re:So, a drop of spam-traffic? (Score:5, Funny)
I for one welcome this chance for other spam vendors to engage in a little competition. It will be a wholly new playing field if/when Intercage re-emerges online, after previously holding a dominant position. Hopefully the free-market nature of Internet business will only encourage the production of more quality spam. The recipients of spam can only benefit from this new development.
Re:i used them (Score:1, Funny)
He kinda answered that already...
We all know that blowjobs are not illegal in the US when performed by consenting (human) adults. Depending what kind of person you are his admission could raise further questions, I don't even want to think about it.
Re:So, a drop of spam-traffic? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So, a drop of spam-traffic? (Score:3, Funny)
Still though one wonders how someone can be running an ISP with 78% hostile traffic and not realize something is up.
If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. ;)
Re:That's why! (Score:3, Funny)
In Soviet Russia ________
Re:So, a drop of spam-traffic? (Score:4, Funny)
Next thing you know `traceroute intercage.com` will look something like this:
traceroute to intercage.com (128.102.0.99), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
12 TKC-COMMUNI.hsa4.SanJose1.Level3.net (209.245.146.6) 36.243 ms 36.086 ms 36.397 ms
13 n254-border-rtr-nisn-sip.arc.nasa.gov (198.123.41.9) 36.087 ms 36.086 ms 36.403 ms
14 intercage.com (128.102.0.99) 36.432 ms 36.231 ms 36.891 ms
Re:That's why! (Score:1, Funny)
I like it. Firm but fair justice for incompetent managers.