[82227] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Sat Jul 9 13:00:02 2005
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 12:59:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: trainier@kalsec.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OFFA9F4520.223BA6AC-ON85257036.006C4286-85257036.006D6431@mail.kalsec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 trainier@kalsec.com wrote:
> The second issue with boycotting, is the false positives.
No, the *point* of the boycott is the "false positives". ISPs *will* react
when their general users find themselves unable to send e-mail because the
entire netspace of the offending ISP is blocked (boycotted).
Blocking only a small subset of an offending ISP, in order to isolate the
block to only the downstream spammer, is not a boycott; it's looking the
other way.
(I may believe in the principles here, mind you, but I'm far to small to
make a point. A workable net-boycott absolutely requires that action be
taken by a non-castrated 800lb gorilla.)
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
