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Internet Credibility Bureau (Re: Points on your Internet driver's

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Sun Jun 13 15:02:17 2004

In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1087123558@imac-en0.delong.sj.ca.us>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 14:57:42 -0400
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>, Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>,
	nanog@merit.edu
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


You underestimate the profitability of spam and the creativity of such
folks in filling out applications.  I do think that it's workable, but just
don't presume that its going to be airtight.

/John

At 10:45 AM -0700 6/13/04, Owen DeLong wrote:
>As I said earlier in private mail to John, I think this will only work if
>the reporting is done on indivuduals, not companies.  For non-corporate
>business entities, the president of the company should be used as a stand-in
>for the company.  For corporate business entities, the CEO or chairman of the
>board should be used.  I'm betting that spammers will rapidly run out of
>people willing to forego future internet access in the name of continuing
>their business fairly rapidly.
>
>Owen

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