[51993] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher X. Candreva)
Wed Sep 11 14:31:44 2002
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:30:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a0520051bb9a4e2e9d47a@[146.106.12.76]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Brad Knowles wrote:
> > B) KNOW WHO THE HELL YOU'RE GIVING ACCOUNTS TO so that (A) works. Get
> > a credit card or verify the phone number and other info (e.g., call
> > them back, insist on calling them back.)
>
> > C) Use (B) to enforce (A).
>
> Doesn't work. See above.
Back in the day, a reasonable BBS would voice-validate all new users. This
meant getting a valid phone number from a new user, and actually calling
them back at that number, before activating an account.
We started as a BBS giving out Unix shell accounts. Our new user
registration screen still says we voice-validate all new accounts, and we
do.
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