[71883] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul G)
Thu Jun 24 18:10:48 2004
From: "Paul G" <paul@rusko.us>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:05:29 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
To: "Ben Browning" <benb@theriver.com>
Cc: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>; <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network
--- snipped ---
> this is not entirely true, a majority of these far-end customers are
> paying the same price regardless of utilization. Even the utilization
> charged customers are not having their 95th Percentile changed because of
> spam, or that'd be my guess. In the end there is no money for mci from
> spammers.
agreed, in the majority of the cases. on the other had, implementing the
FUSSP jrace proposed would cost mci (or any other carrier) revenue as they
would be seen as frothing-at-the-mouth fanatics that present a business risk
when used for upstream transit even for folks that run clean networks and
deal with abuse complaints properly.
and yes, it's time for this thread to die.
paul
