[7143] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Suggestion for NANOG Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Mon Jan 20 11:16:52 1997
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: madison@acsi.net (Eric D. Madison)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 11:08:26 -0500 (EST)
Cc: srh@merit.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <32E39781.2A2E@acsi.net> from "Eric D. Madison" at Jan 20, 97 11:04:17 am
It might be an intersting topic for conversation - but ignoring complaints
about (esp. *serious*) spammers hosted on your network will not make you
very popular in the provider community.
So I guess it *is* a topic for conversation...
Avi
> One topic that really needs to be addressed is the responsibility of the
> carriers on Email Spamming by customers. Should the carrier disconnect
> a customer that continues to send unsolicited emails even after a
> individual or group asks to be taken off their distribution lists.
>
> As a carrier, we at ACSI have issued a statement that we cannot be
> responsible for customer traffic. I know that legally we cannot filter
> any customer traffic, but I am really getting sick of getting emails
> about customers that continue to send unsolicited emails. We as a
> community need to come up with a common carrier policy on how to handle
> such customers and how to deal with complaints.
>
> If anyone else is sick of this, please let me know so maybe we can have
> this brought up as a topic of discussion in San Fran.
>
> Eric
