Please Unplug My Former Host
Not so long ago I had shared hosting. I was originally with one company, who was bought by another, and then another. I then switched upon receiving horrible service, landed on my last shared hosting company (who was quite good) before moving to my own servers.
So one of the first companies - all one-in-the-same to me has a server (or more) that is basically a virus relay. I receive numerous emails a day from this one IP - all viruses. They have a few other things in common: they are only to domains and email accounts I had while hosting with this company and all of the spoofed “from” addresses are from other domains hosted at this company (or formerly hosted there).
I did what I hope most responsible people would do: I wrote them a polite email letting them know what’s happening and how and suggested they look into it. No response. So I wrote another email. No response.
At this point I’m pretty disgusted. I know they’re receiving my emails and they’re willingly letting this continue. I’ve gotten messages numbering in the teens (at least) within one day. I safely delete them - but I do wonder just how many other machines they’ve infected by letting this continue. I know the phrase “depraved indifference” is usually reserved for murder charges, but it’s quite fitting here.
I’ll have to simply block their IPs from delivering mail to me as I’m tired of receiving this stuff. If I were lawsuit trigger-happy and had some free time I’d probably have a fun case to attempt to set some precedent too, any hosting company that willingly allows viruses to be spread should have some action taken against them.
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