[51939] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Sep 10 16:24:54 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:23:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200209101526.g8AFQitu004170@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
<herecy>
Or unless we design a network which does not rely on good will of its
users for proper operation.
</herecy>
--vadim
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Most spam-fighting efforts on the technical side make the basic assumption
> that spam has similar characteristics to a properly designed TCP stack - that
> dropped/discarded spam-grams will trigger backoff at the sender. Unfortunately,
> discarding a high percentage of the grams will trigger a retransmit multiple
> times.
>
> Spam is likely going to be a problem until we either hire some thug muscle from
> <pick ethnic organized crime group>, or the government does it for us...
