[16790] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam .. Find the sender !
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue May 12 20:50:33 1998
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 20:34:47 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980512010617.0107a708@norfolk.infi.net>; from Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net> on Tue, May 12, 1998 at 01:06:17AM -0400
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 01:06:17AM -0400, Dean Robb wrote:
> > Looks like a UUnet dialup user to me. I'd say call UUnet's NOC,
> >find out to whom this dialup was resold (e.g. Mindspring, Earthlink,
> >etc...) and give them a call. Good luck.
> >
>
> And if the NOC actually provides that info, please drop me a line. Their
> abuse people keep telling us on SPAM-L that they their legal VP won't let
> them release the names of the resellers using the POPs. If there's a way
> around that...it'd be most handy...
I don't expect them to release it to _me_, but if they refuse to pursue
the spam problem with _their_ customer, whom they _can identify_, then,
well... maybe it's time for someone to threaten
president@whitehouse.gov via a leased UUnet dialup...
Cheers,
-- jra
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