MCI is No. 1 on a top-10 list of Internet service providers who either are friendly to or turn a blind eye to spammers using their systems, according to anti-spam Web site Spamhaus.org.
As of the middle of last week, MCI.com registered 242 known and unresolved sources of spam, far outpacing the No. 2 spam-friendly ISP, SBC.com, with 90, according to Spamhaus.org.
“Although all networks claim to be anti-spam, some network executives factor revenue made from hosting known spam gangs into corporate policy decisions to continue to sell services to spam operations,” says copy on Spamhaus.org. “Others simply decide that closing the holes in their end-user broadband systems that allow spammers access would be too costly to their bottom lines.
”The majority of the world’s service providers succeed in keeping spammers off their networks and work to maintain an anti-spam reputation, but their work is undermined daily by the few networks who, out of corporate greed or mismanagement, choose to be part of the problem.”
Among the other well-known names in Spamhaus’s top-10 spam-friendly ISPs are Comcast.net at No. 3 and Yahoo.com at No. 9.
Also, according to Spamhaus.org, the U.S. is the country that is by far responsible for the most spam with 2,391 known sources of spam. China is No. 2 with 511. Russia is No. 3 with 266.
Rounding out Spamhaus.org’s top-10 list of worst spam-haven countries in descending order are South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Argentina.
MCI did not return a call for comment.
