[29971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RBL-type BGP service for known rogue networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott McGrath)
Mon Jul 10 21:52:10 2000
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:47:22 -0400
From: "Scott McGrath" <s_mcgrath@bexair.com>
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To: J Bacher <jb@jbacher.com>
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Anonymous call blocking is a WONDERFUL thing the call gets dropped at the
switch and the phone never rings. It does not answer the legitimacy question
but I figure if they do not wish to identify themselves I do not want to talk
to them!
J Bacher wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> > In my humble opinion any admin who permits their mailer to receive any
> > e-mail from a known open relay (even so-called legitimate e-mail, since
>
> It's either legitimate or it isn't.
>
> > there's absolutely no way to identify legitimacy at the protocol level)
> > is an accessory to any theft-of-service attack perpetrated on the relay,
> > and is furthermore "guilty" in part of allowing known spam to reach
> > their end users (assuming of course that they are willing to do anything
>
> Next, you'll be asking telephone companies to be filtering phone
> solicitors. How would you like that done, by NPA or NPA/NXX?
>
> The determination as to whether an ISP desires to exclude or include data
> into the network should be based upon its business plan and customer
> demands and not upon anyone's political agenda or name-calling.
