[47484] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Sat May 4 19:00:19 2002
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 15:58:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Cc: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sat, 4 May 2002, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> "Forrest W. Christian" wrote:
> > Anyone who thinks that government can pass a law and this will go away
> > is hopelessly naieve.
> Uh, thanks. The government has all kinds of property protection laws. My
> mail spool is my property. Do the math.
Been there, done that, and it made no significant difference. Both J.D.
Falk and I put a lot of work into getting tough anti-spam legislation
passed, and we were successful. Here in California we now have jail time
for second-offense spammers. Does it make a damned bit of difference? No.
Was it worth trying? Yes, of course.
The conclusion I came to at the time was that the bond-posting
micropayment schemes were the only way out of the problem, and I haven't
seen anything to change my mind on that since. Whitelists are too
drastic, I think, but I'm slowly headed that way.
-Bill
