[20868] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Despamming wholesale dialup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Wed Oct 28 20:38:10 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:19:53 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: Harold Willison <harold@agis.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810290054.QAA00810@condor.lvrmr.mhsc.com>; from Roeland M.J. Meyer on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 04:54:30PM -0800
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 04:54:30PM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> What I really suggest, and this takes some work on your part, is to contact
> the
> site's admin and inform them of their open-relay status. If they won't close
> the relay, block them. Alternatively, you can assume that if they haven't
> gotten their relays closed by now they are too clue-less to do so and block
> them immediately, with notification.
This works for sites that
(a) speak English
(b) have a clue
(c) aren't steeped in a dozen levels of bureaucracy that make it hard to
push changes like this through.
I don't think Harold's idea is a bad one.
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