[30530] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: spammers will move offshore?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Thu Aug 10 16:17:51 2000
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From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Martin Cooper'" <mjc@cooper.org.uk>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:14:08 -0700
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The salient point here is that it's costing revenue.
There is only so much of my nose that I will cut off, before I
decide to live with my face.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On
Behalf Of
> Martin Cooper
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 12:31 PM
> To: Roeland M.J. Meyer
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: spammers will move offshore?
>
>
>
> Roeland M.J. Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com> writes:
>
> > SPAM is a side-issue here and not really relevent to losing
> > connectivity with an entire continent.
>
> I don't know -- I think we could probably afford to lose
> connectivity to large parts of the APNIC database without
> major issues; it would probably halve the amount of SPAM
> we get and the amount of time wasted complaining about it
> to unresponsibe admins as well.
>
> M.
