[54137] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Tue Dec 10 18:43:03 2002
From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <scotts@primus.ca>, "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:41:14 -0800
In-Reply-To: <p05200f0aba1bff3998dd@[192.168.1.69]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:45:29 -0500, Scott Silzer wrote:
>I could understand if an ISP was allowing spam from a portion=
of
>there network. But in this case the only thing that the ISP did=
is
>host a website, the SPAM was sent from from a third party's=
network.
>The ISP did terminate the customer but in the meantime the=
entire
>NSP's network has been blacklisted, for a rouge webhosting=
account
>does sound a bit harsh.
=09A spam blocking service that worked that way would be useless.=
Anyone could
get any site they didn't like blacklisted simply by spamvertising=
it. Anyone
who uses a spam blocking list that works that way is DoSing=
themselves.
=09DS
