[78180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL scomp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Osmon)
Thu Feb 24 15:14:47 2005
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:30:59 -0700
From: John Osmon <josmon@rigozsaurus.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 07:08:07PM +0000, Edward B. Dreger wrote:
[...]
> On the cynical side: Has anyone considered an "inverted" blacklist --
> i.e., a _destination_-based mail blocking mechanism? Rejecting mail to
> parties with excessive bogus complaint rates certainly might simplify
> life for those tasked with handling "abuse" incidents. ;-)
It's interesting that you should ask that today. A few days ago
we started throwing around an idea along these lines:
- N = # of bogus abuse/spam reports for a given destination
- X = # of reports where we stop delivering mail to
a given destination
- for 0 < N < X -- deliver the mail, but also inform the sender
that the destination address has reported spam/abuse coming from
our network, and that if it continues, we won't deliver mail
to that destination anymore.
- for N > X -- tell the sender that we aren't delivering the mail
because it is likely to get us put on a blacklist.
We haven't fleshed things out completely, because we're not sure
the cure is better than the disease yet...
--
John Osmon
