[13270] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Evans)
Sat Nov 1 05:43:23 1997
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 19:14:45 +0900
From: Peter Evans <peter@gol.ad.jp>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0xRSOe-00076uC@most.weird.com> [%y%02m.%02N]
I couldn't resist this:
On %m %N, "Greg A. Woods" <woods@most.weird.com> wrote:
[snip - about charging $500 spam-penalty.]
|Mabye you have to be like the phone company and charge a $500 deposit on
|all new accounts until some history has been established that indicates
|you're at least trustworthy on the surface.
They do. Their name is NTT, Its about 670$ (72000yen) per
line and your chances of getting it back are nil[1].
this gets you 1 analogue line right. (for a bit more, you
can have an ISDN line which is what I have now ..)
Peter
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[1] actually, you can sell your line right, but you wont get the
full 72000yen back.
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