That's a fair point, there's no reason to not question their motives.
I just personally don't see that it's a profit center for them.
Just do the math. They blocked at least 100K IPs, because 1% of these
IPs sent spam in the last 7 days. If 0.5% of those 100K IPs decide to
subscribe to their whitelist, that's at least 50000 CHF / 24 months.
Which is I guess a rather comfortable income that largely exceeds their
costs.
How do you know that's not the same situation as the PBL? Who says that
it was uceprotect's decision alone to list 100K IPs?
It's what they themselves say: they changed their formula two days ago,
and because of this thousands IP addresses that were not listed are now
listed. See http://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php?m=12&s=0 .
Also, they seem to ignore that, while it is feasible for ISPs to
eradicate spam on their network, it is impossible for server providers
to do this:
That sounds a lot like apathy. Even the banks are required to KYC.
So what? If you use the bank analogy, it would mean pestering 1000
customers because 1 customer got robbed. And then explain that they got
robbed because of apathy, because they did not install an alarm.
"If big providers like DTAG and Microsoft can so effectively prevent
that their customers are sending spam, why can your provider not also
do so? The simple answer is: The Abuse Departements of providers NOT
listed in our Level 3 are doing an excellent job, while those listed do
not. If your provider really wants to stop the excessive spam coming
from their ranges they would simply install some preventive measures."
Honest customers can have their WordPress website hacked.
Most don't, case studies have shown that it's apathy that causes most
wordpress hacks.
That's orthogonal to the point at hand. The point is that honest
customers can have their WordPress website hacked. This might indeed
happen because of apathy on the part of that customer, but a server
provider cannot do anything to detect customers that do not upgrade their
website regularly enough. The product they sell is a bare machine in a
datacenter.
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