[21794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu Nov 19 23:29:39 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:59:07 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: Sean Finn <seanf@cisco.com>, Chris Williams <psion@geekspace.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199811192325.PAA03419@condor.lvrmr.mhsc.com>; from Roeland M.J. Meyer on Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 03:25:25PM -0800
On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 03:25:25PM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> Ah, but there's the problem and Karl D. is right. The *real* answer is to
> do away with throw-away accounts. Yes, the provider of the throw-away
> account knows exactly who the spammer is (I won't go any deeper than that),
> they have a CC number. If that data matches our customer, that customer
> becomes $1500US poorer and stops being our customer. Tracing a spam to a
> particular dail-in port is not easy, but it's do-able. You then know who
> the provider is/was.
It's actually not that hard for a smallish provider like NACS. I imagine
the big dialup wholesale outifts would have quite a bit more work to do,
though.
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Steve Sobol [sjsobol@nacs.net]
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