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Re: IP spoofing and spamming

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Wed Oct 29 14:19:42 1997

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:56:35 -0500
From: Alan Hannan <hannan@bythetrees.com>
To: steve@nwnet.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199710290418.UAA18066@cypress.nwnet.net>; from Steve Mansfield on Tue, Oct 28, 1997 at 08:18:32PM -0800


> In the case brought up, you simple get a copy of a complaint from ISP X,
> which gives you proof the user was spamming from that address, which gives
> you every right to block it.

  This gives you proof someone says that the user was spamming from
  that address.

  I wouldn't risk the financial solvency of my firm on what someone
  else says.

  -a


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