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Spamhaus has released their latest Top Ten Worst ISP List, comprised of known spam enabling ISPs. Spamhaus says. “Spam continues to plague the Internet because a small number of large Internet Service Providers sell service knowingly to professional spammers for profit…”  [Yet again, greed raises it's ugly head...mxh]

Infosecurity.US supports Spamhaus in their efforts to control, and eliminate cybercrime  through unsolicited email vectors. More information related to the dubious honor of inclusion in this all-star list appears after the jump. [Hat Tip to Garth Bruen over at Knujon...mxh]

Spam continues to plague the Internet because a small number of large Internet Service Providers sell service knowingly to professional spammers for profit, or do nothing to prevent spammers operating from their networks.

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. 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 a positive 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. The world’s worst spam problem networks today are:

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