[28368] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICQ & AOL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Fri Apr 28 03:19:29 2000
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 03:20:02 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net>
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sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>
> > 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.
Yet both tactics, somehow, seem like overkill..
**SJS (stating the obvious)
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