[184612] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP-Echelon Compliance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kuhnke)
Sat Oct 10 14:38:01 2015
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 18:49:49 -0700
From: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Nothing could possibly go wrong with turning loose a poorly coded software
tool to make automated legal threats in the most litigious nation on earth.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 10:00:19PM +0200, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> > Do I just block them for spamming?
>
> Yes, since that's what they're doing.
>
> Consider: they're sending email. It's unsolicited (you did not ask for
> it by confirmed/closed-loop subscription). And it's bulk: these are not
> individual messages, they're auto-generated and primarily consist of
> identical boilerplate. Thus, unsolicited bulk email, thus spam (since
> that's the canonical definition).
>
> ---rsk
>
