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Re: Implementing anti-abuse techniques on ISP networks....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Pitts)
Wed Aug 6 18:24:44 1997

Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 18:14:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Pitts <andy@rbdc.rbdc.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu

> I don't know about the "huge players", but we're an Internet Service
> Provider, not an Internet Blockage Provider.  We don't allow spoofing,
> and we don't allow relaying, but we're not about to put filters
> to prevent dialup customers from connecting wherever they want.


I too, am a small Internet Service Provider, and I too, don't want
to block sites that my users may want to access.  But there seems
to be a few domains that do nothing but generate spam.  Am I not
providing a service to my users if I prevent them from being
smothered with spam from those sites?
--
Andy Pitts                 : "Knowledge is a deadly friend
andy@rbdc.rbdc.com         :  When no one sets the rules."
http://www.rbdc.com        :        --King Crimson--

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