[13218] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Oct 30 23:55:19 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 23:51:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
cc: Paul Peterson <paulp@winterlan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199710301007.KAA02462@alice.wonderland.org>
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Na. Howabout making sure that *every* dial in user has a fixed IP
> address. This way you can match *in real time* or later, without
> logs who did what. OK this only fixes dial-up accounts, but that
> is a majot part of the problem - and permenantly connected sites
> already have fixed IP address space.
>
> To anticipate the next flame - it is feasible, we do it. Demon that
Sure...and when I apply to ARIN for more space and show I've assigned a
/21 worth of space to static IP dialup users, I'm sure they won't laugh
while stamping DENIED on my application :)
How does Demon get away with that sort of waste?
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