snake oil service like webiron
A most excellent characterization!
As a sales maneuver WebIron has been grandstanding for months saying that Tor operators are "unwilling to cleanup" when they know full-well that tor operators can not / should not filter traffic due to minor brute- force login attempts. For contrast, Fail2ban in 2012 was modified to silently block login attacks without spamming Tor operators in a reasonable gesture of politeness. SSH brute-force attacks have been a fact-of-life for 20 years. Hardly anyone thinks it worth the effort to spam abuse@ desks over it when a simple rate-limit does the job nicely.
WebIron has become so obnoxious that Spamhaus placed their domain on the Domain Block List last Friday
http://www.spamhaus.org/query/dbl?domain=webiron.com
and in addition, the IP of their reporting system appears on the Spamhaus snow-shoe list and thereby on the big-bazooka Zen DNSBL.
http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/23.239.20.29.html
Spamhaus is highly conservative, highly respected and only lists egregious unrepentant abusers.
The only reason to comply is in deference to the overworked abuse-desk of your ISP if they do not have an automated system for dealing with this nonsense.