[51945] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafi Sadowsky)
Tue Sep 10 16:58:34 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:55:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il>
Reply-To: <nanog@merit.edu>
To: Tony Hain <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>, <alex@yuriev.com>,
'Eliot Lear' <lear@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <005801c2590a$764c1d80$011aa8c0@eagleswings>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
## On 2002-09-10 13:41 -0700 Tony Hain typed:
TH>
TH> Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
TH> > How about using a combination of technical and "social"
TH> > measures For example in a Cyber Cafe use passive technical
TH> > measures to count the total number of outbound SMTP sessions
TH> > and charge 1$ per Email over an average rate of 2
TH> > Emails/minute and 10$ per Email exceeding a rate of 10 per minute
TH>
TH> So the person who connects after sitting on a plane for 5 hours gets
TH> charged extra because the laptop bursts 50 messages ...
Well the numbers may need adjusting but please note that I
suggested measuring the average not burst - so if said person buys 30
minutes online his *average* rate would be (just) under the
2 Emails/minute threshold
If needed change the first threshold to 4/5 per minute and the second
threshold to 20 per minutes
TH> There is no
TH> automated technical approach to a social problem. Public executions
TH> would be much more effective than preventing legitimate customers from
TH> getting their job done.
True in many cases but the punishment should be reasonable
You could define SPAM as theft in Saudi-Arabia & then a a spammer would
probably have his right hand chopped off ...
A little common sense would probably be useful in matching the punishment
to the "crime"
TH>
TH> Tony
TH>
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Rafi
