[81229] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon is easily fooled by spamming zombies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Wed Jun 1 13:58:08 2005
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:57:58 +0400
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <18905E17-5929-4BFC-AAAA-4BC2D28358C0@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> If the ISP wants to use SMTP AUTH or other mechanisms to lower abuse,
> that's fine. But to say "only allow ISP.net from addresses - but allow
> them from anywhere on the 'Net" is kinda ... silly.
I think we are arguing the same side of the problem. I think I mis-read
this one sentence.
SMTP AUTH is a great thing, really, but not what it's cracked up to be
in the age of zombies. I am not saying that they should be allowed from
anywhere on the net, I argue quite the opposite.
Gadi.
