[13268] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: to control spam let's break the net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Oct 31 22:26:15 1997
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 22:22:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Robert Laughlin <robert@portal.dx.net>
cc: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>, nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.971031112125.11094B-100000@portal>
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Robert Laughlin wrote:
> Well spam is bad, but I do not think this is the answer either.
> DataXchange has spent lots of efforts at spam control, but apparently Karl
> does not think we have done enough. Based on receiving this one email,
If you don't block relaying, what do you do?
> relayed thru us, he has decided to put a block in place. Most of our
> customers use portal.dx.net and other machines in the same address block
> as a mail relay, so he has effectively cut off most of our ISPs and their
Why would ISP's (even if they are your customers) be using you as a relay
rather than have their servers handle delivery directly?
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