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Re: SPEWS?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william@elan.net)
Thu Jun 20 16:24:20 2002

Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:02:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: <william@elan.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.41.0206200840170.26229-100000@amethyst.nstc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


I'v had similar problems as Alex with SPEW and also got the same reaction. 
They have serious attitude problem. And no, SBC is not using SPEW, I 
think they have their own blacklist based on actual incidents and I think 
they are smart enough not to put themselve under legal risks for using SPEW.

> > Overzealous to say the least (i.e. without using language used by people 
> > at spews 
> 
> Uh...
> 
> Most of the people that were yelling at Alex probably had absolutely
> nothing to do with SPEWS. NANAE != SPEWS.
> 
> > which by itself should already say something about how professional 
> > they are). Its used primarily by very small sstem operators and I don't 
> > know any isp of any serious size (i.e. over 1000 users or domains) that is 
> > using them, 
> 
> I believe SBC's ISPs are.
> 
> 
> 
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