[7170] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: random thoughts on how I can prevent spammers from using my net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Jan 21 02:10:59 1997
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:06:25 +0200 (IST)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
To: ALAN DORN HETZEL JR <dorn@atlanta.net>
cc: NANOG@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <009AEA72.D9BDB1A0.66@atlanta.net>
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, ALAN DORN HETZEL JR wrote:
>
> I have been trying to figure out ways to prevent spammers from using my
> net as a sending location (even once). If most spam is sent from
> throwaway dialup accounts, how would a daily limit of #arbitrary-number
> of emails sent, with a charge of $0.05 (or other number) per excess
> e-mail...? The arbitrary-number might be 1000 or so, plenty for most
> legitimate uses. Since we get credit card numbers from our dialuo
> customers, if we do get a spammer, and they send, say 100,000 emails
> in a month, we subtract their allowance of 30K or so and bill them
> $3,500 (70K * $0.05) for excess....
>
> If we make the terms and conditions obvious, and get a signature before
> activating the account, it won't take very many occurrences before word
> would get around that SPAM can ocst as much as paper junk mail to send
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Dorn
>
Sounds like Bob Metcalfe's recent column in Infoworld on E-postage.
Hank Nussbacher
