[14569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: peering policies and spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (john@raleigh.ibm.com)
Wed Jan 7 11:28:22 1998
From: john@raleigh.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 98 16:09:08 -0500
To: Jeremy Porter <jerry@fc.net>, spamstop@lists.mail.xara.net
In-Reply-To: <199801062307.RAA25700@freeside.fc.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, noc@cwix.net, lawrence@cwix.net
Ouch... IMHO thats C&W showing their newbie status (at least for the UK,
they've only been operating/advertising as an ISP for a couple of months).
I've copied to the UK spamstop list for info/comment.
In <199801062307.RAA25700@freeside.fc.net>, on 01/06/98
at 05:07 PM, Jeremy Porter <jerry@fc.net> said:
>Have any providers gone on record as stating that
>they are going to require anti-spam policies in their future peering
>agreements? We have the case of a spam attack coming from Cable and
>Wireless CWIX.NET customer:
>Here is CWIX saying its ok to send in bulk unsolicited email. We are
>going to require that our service providers and peers argee to not pass
>us spam traffic, by whatever means that they want to impelement. As a
>stop gap, I imaging a route map to map all prefixes arriving out of AS
>5683 to Null0 for the time being will a stop gap, until we can get our
>providers to drop peering with these idiots.
>I imagine we will also be pursing legal action as these people are
>located in state.
>>Here is the official response from CWIX.NET (cable wireless ex)
>>Patrick
>>>>>>
>>><excerpt>Sender: lawrence@tipa2.cwix.net
>>>Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 19:20:34 -0500
>>>From: Lawrence Guidry
>>>Organization: Cable & Wireless Internet Exchange (CWIX)
>>>To: "Patrick Michael O'Leary"
>>>Subject: [Fwd: Ticket #92258 (craig) Spammed email to our site!
>>>
>>>
>>>Upon investigation, your complaint appears to be without merit.
>>>
>>>
>>>The simple act of sending commercial bulk e-mail to your clientelle is
>>>not in and of itself a violation of our AUP.
>>>
>>>
>>>Any issues of complaint regarding plagerism towards Roy Bronson are
>>>between you and he.
>>>
>>>
>>>Of course, please feel free to re-clarify your complaint for further
>>>consideration by us.
>---
>Jeremy Porter, Freeside Communications, Inc. jerry@fc.net PO BOX
>80315 Austin, Tx 78708 | 1-800-968-8750 | 512-458-9810
>http://www.fc.net
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