[30520] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: surge in spam email (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J Bacher)
Thu Aug 10 10:18:35 2000
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:15:48 -0500 (CDT)
From: J Bacher <jb@jbacher.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> It's a chicken & egg situation -- if all of the real legitimate e-mail
> from known open relays was blocked then they'd quickly fix their systems
> but everyone's playing chicken and nobody wants to stand up in front of
> the users and tell them they're not allowed to receive any e-mail,
> legitimate or not, from any known open relay. Some providers say
> they'll lose customers if they do this (and they may), while others say
> they'll face an enormous support overload.
Your biggest roadblock will be the management of such a plan when you
cannot even get everyone to agree as to which application to use: MAPs or
ORBS or individual filter lists. I haven't seen this group come to a
consensus.
