[81633] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Tue Jun 21 13:56:09 2005
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:55:54 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050621134516.GA5807@gsp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>"The best place to stop abuse is as near its source as possible."
>
>Meaning: it's far easier for network X to stop abuse from leaving its
>network than it is for 100,000 other networks to defend themselves from it.
>Especially since techniques for doing so (for instance, controlling
>outbound SMTP spam) are well-known, heavily documented, and easily put
>into service.
>
>
The problem with countermeasures that would actually hurt the source of
junk heavily enough would also have to hurt "legitimate" traffic making
you an immediate lawsuit magnet. If that would not be the case, or some
larger parties feel they could stand despite this fact, the problem
would be fairly straightforward to reduce to a fraction in a few months
time.
Pete
