However, Sallynet, another chronic spammer began heavily spamming just about the time Earthstar was disconnected. For a long time, rumors of a 'revised' policy in the works were heard, but things moved slowly. Supposedly, a policy was internally put in place for new customers around 27 January 1997, but several chronic spammers such as Sallynet remained untouched. Since the emergence of Sprint's new policy , their network security folks seem pretty aggressive in enforcement. They're pressuring any network IP customer under their domains to also clean up their own act with customers of those sub-domains.
Sprint seems to have done a major turn-around in supporting the war against net abuse.
In addition to providing host addresses for Wallace's bevy of spam machines, isp-inter.net pumped out its own flood of junk mail. Of course that didn't address the issue that the message still costs the receiver and the receiver's provider to get it, then decide to trash it. The tag also appeared to have several different forms, and was inconsistent in it's use. MCI went through a spate with MoneyWorld, another spammer which took weeks to disconnect due to a legal hitch in the contract. It had been hoped that MCI would have taken a lesson from this incident, but it seems not.