[71898] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Jeffrey Race)
Thu Jun 24 21:18:49 2004
From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
To: "Ben Browning" <benb@theriver.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:16:27 +0700
In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.0.20040624113953.06434d60@127.0.0.1>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:50:44 -0700, Ben Browning wrote:
>Likewise, I imagine MCI could argue that the damage is to their core
>product; namely, the trust of other ISPs and their willingness to exchange
>traffic with MCI.
This was Earthlink's argument in the case I cited in
<http://www.camblab.com/nugget/spam_03.pdf>: their
connectivity was jeopardized by the spammer's activity.
As far as I know they prevailed.
The point is, we have not seen MCI go down valiantly on the
field of battle against the spammers in court or anywhere else.
I proposed a complete open-and-shut legal case to MCI, with
the perp's legal service address, and Neil Patel refused to take
any action. The management's intention was clear: continue
to profit rather than take the perps to court. All this talk about
how difficult it would be blah blah blah is just a smokescreen for
inaction
Jeffrey Race
