The plan of action is:

1) Since what MCI is doing is highly unethical behavior (profiteering 
from knowingly aiding spam gangs causing millions of dollars in damage 
to the rest of the net), we are starting with the press, since the power 
of the press is far greater than ours. 

2) If media exposure of the activity, and reaction of the public and 
shareholders to the ethics and illegality of it has no effect in forcing 
MCI to change their policy and begin terminating spam gangs and illegal 
spamware distribution sites, then: As the activity is illegal, next week 
we will ask the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, to begin 
action against MCI under the VA spam law which prohibits distribution or 
sale of stealth spamware through any network connected through Virginia 
(MCI UUNet), and, as the VA law has a long-arm statute, at the same time 
we will press for the VA AG to take action against send-safe.com

3) Failing that, the final step is that we will place MCI's corporate 
mail relays on the SBL for "Knowingly Providing Spam Support Services".

In fact we don't think we will need 2 or 3, as the press attention is 
already working. Spooked by the Washington Post, someone at MCI 
yesterday kicked someone else and suddenly MCI Abuse got their finger 
out and began emailing SBL-removals removing listings and nuking 
spammers. For a while late yesterday they went down to 180+ records, 
sadly then their greedy salesmen sold a bunch of new blocks to Atriks 
and FutureVision and they're now back up to 188.

Meantime we have updates at:


-- 
  Steve Linford
  The Spamhaus Project
  http://www.spamhaus.org

What the security vendors (Postini, Virecom and Basex, commercial filter 
firms whose revenues are dependent on a continuing spam problem) didn't 
realize is that I didn't say email systems were "about to", or were even 
"on the verge of a collapse", I'm merely warning of problems we see on 
the horizon. Spamhaus' article is at:

     Link to Spamhaus' Article

In it I say:

    "At the current pace of ever-incrementing spam levels Spamhaus
     predicts that by mid-2006 spam could reach 95% of all email
     traffic and we would at that stage see visible signs of the
     beginning of a slow meltdown of email delivery systems caused
     by overloaded email queues and stressed spam filters."

I'm certainly NOT predicting a collapse or death of email, but warning 
that problems for email servers caused by ever-increasing volumes of 
incoming spam will probably be very noticeable by mid-2006, if something 
is not done to curb ever-increasing spam volumes.

-- 
  Steve Linford
  The Spamhaus Project
  http://www.spamhaus.org