[28352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICQ & AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Thu Apr 27 15:57:32 2000
To: u_rundle@hotmail.com
Cc: iv@akcecc.net, nanog@merit.edu
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:39:56 EDT"
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:55:24 +0200
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> I'd venture to say that this is the result of the following phenomena:
>
> Block all APNIC and RIPE assigned networks at the border and all of the
> sudden, hack attempts and CC fraud disappear.
>
> It's fan-%^&#ing-tasticly simple to do and so very effective.
And if I block the ARIN assigned networks, most of the spam I receive
disappears. It's very effective.
In fact, I can limit myself to blocking all email from Hotmail, AOL
and a few other large ISPs in the US, and that'll take care of most of
the spam too...
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
