[71793] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Unplugging spamming PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Pingree)
Wed Jun 23 18:04:02 2004
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:59:59 -0700
From: "Larry Pingree" <lpingree@juniper.net>
To: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>,
"Sam Hayes Merritt, III" <sam@themerritts.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Mail servers should be registered just like domains and shutdown by a
registrar if they are misusing their registered services. This really
needs to be handled by a multi-lateral legal solution, industry will not
fix it alone.
LP
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Best Regards,
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Larry
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Larry Pingree
Partner Engineering
Juniper Networks, Inc.
408-543-2190
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Petri Helenius
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:15 PM
To: Sam Hayes Merritt, III
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Unplugging spamming PCs
Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote:
>
>Proactive would be blocking port 25 except to comcast.net's mail
servers,
>at least on retail users without static IPs, and then opening it up if
>the customer cannot work around it by using comcast's mail server to
send
>out. Thats what responsible ISPs have done.
> =20
>
No, that would be punishing before the crime happened. Responsible would
be to punish swiftly after the fact, but not before.
Pete
