[71393] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Credibility Bureau (Re: Points on your Internet driver's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sgorman1@gmu.edu)
Sun Jun 13 19:22:17 2004
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:03:37 -0400
From: sgorman1@gmu.edu
To: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>, Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Also the problem of off shoring spam probably should be taken into consideration. No matter how good the plan is if a country is willing not to enforce it there will be a problem. I read a study recently that analyzed where spam destination sites were hosted (where the link in the spam message takes you) and 70% was in China.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2004/tc20040517_1934_tc058.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Date: Sunday, June 13, 2004 2:57 pm
Subject: Internet Credibility Bureau (Re: Points on your Internet driver's license)
>
> 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
>
>
