[54074] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Tue Dec 10 10:51:29 2002
In-Reply-To: <1039534170.6439.194.camel@magrat> "from Nigel Titley at Dec 10,
2002 03:29:30 pm"
To: Nigel Titley <nigel@packetexchange.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:27:46 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: Mark Segal <MSegal@FUTUREWAY.CA>, nanog@nanog.org
From: neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > Questions:
> > 1) How do we smack some sense into spews?
>
> Very difficult.... we had a similar problem. One bad customer and SPEWS
> blackholes not only our corporate LAN but also my HOME address range,
> and that of my home ISP, who was not even peripherally involved.
>
> We just had to sit it out, as SPEWS is not accountable, or contactable.
> Eventually the listing decayed, but it was a real problem for us while
> it lasted.
>
There is no technical solution to spam.
Regards,
Neil.
