[58080] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Open relays and open proxies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (McBurnett, Jim)
Wed Apr 30 16:08:30 2003
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:05:25 -0400
From: "McBurnett, Jim" <jmcburnett@msmgmt.com>
To: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory-nanog@blank.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Nathan,
tell me, If I am a disgruntled former employee, and I decide my best
method of revenge is to use a forging spam app to send out False
advertisements about your company, how does that fit into you thoughts?
Jim
>
>Why yes, yes it does.
>
>Why exactly should you be able to profit from spamming without hassle
>or reproach?=20
>
>If you dislike being complained to because your customers are
>spamming, your options are clear: ignore the complaints (in which case
>the issue will certainly be taken up with your upstream providers), or
>stop taking the spammers' money.
>
>Spam does not exist in a vacuum. It's an economy like any other, and
>someone who hosts the spammers' sites is very much an active
>participant.
>
>As Joe-Bob Briggs says, "I'm surprised I have to explain this."
>
>-n
>
