[56204] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: anti-spam vs network abuse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Fri Feb 28 12:57:11 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 28 Feb 2003 17:56:36 +0000
In-Reply-To: <3E5F88A2.8BBFC24@garlic.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > For the past 15 months, NJABL has reactively tested systems that have
> > connected to participating SMTP servers to see if those systems are open
> > relays. ...
> >
> > We do not consider what NJABL does abuse, ...
Jon,
If "they" are indeed only testing systems who connect to them, it's not
abuse, and I would not have complained. However, they scanned every
address in every netblock I own, looking for SMTP servers. That was
abuse, that was illegal in California, and I was shocked that you "allowed"
"them" to behave that way. Hopefully my inference is correct and "they"
are now scanning only the hosts which connect to participating SMTP servers.
Paul
