[71868] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Browning)
Thu Jun 24 15:26:56 2004
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:17:29 -0700
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
"Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
From: Ben Browning <benb@theriver.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406240624270.521@sharpie.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 11:34 PM 6/23/2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>I'd also point out someting that any provider will tell you: "Spammers
>never pay their bills."
Yes, but this is not a problem for a large carrier, as the people that
receive it sure do. In other words, the money you lose on the spammer is
subsidized by all the people that pay you to receive it.
>This is, in fact (for you nanae watchers), the
>reason that most of them get canceled by us FASTER... Sadly, non-payment
>is often a quicker and easier method to term a customer than 'abuse', less
>checks since there is no 'percieved revenue' :(
A revenue check has no place in abuse terminations.
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Ben Browning <benb@theriver.com>
The River Internet Access Co.
WA Operations Manager
1-877-88-RIVER http://www.theriver.com
