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Re: Automatic abuse reports

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Wed Nov 13 22:52:49 2013

Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:50:23 -0800 (PST)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: Sam Moats <sam@circlenet.us>
In-Reply-To: <abd31348f6877528592c441a73acc7f6@www.circlenet.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Sam Moats wrote:
> The only thing I can think of is that they are making the decisions about how 
> important their abuse desk
> is based solely on the cost of running that desk. They are seeing it as a 
> cost center and not thinking
> about it's long term benefit to the entire network. I can't think of a way to 
> remove the incentive for this
> short term thinking.

Spam needs to become a financial liability rather than a lucrative revenue 
stream. That's the only way this is going to change.

-Dan


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