[82228] in North American Network Operators' Group
boycotting peers (was Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Sat Jul 9 13:14:30 2005
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:14:00 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0507091255470.24879@server.duh.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 07/09/05, Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> wrote:
> (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.)
Having lots of vocally unhappy customers == castration?
The obvious response is to say "well, think about how unhappy
they are with all the spam" -- but that's not how it works in
the real world. Instead, the customer STILL gets tons of spam,
and is incensed that can't e-mail Aunt Tillie whose only crime
is to use the same ISP as some zombied machine.
Boycotts worked great back when spammers were stationary and
users were more complacent, but spam sending techniques have
evolved a lot in the past ten years.
--
J.D. Falk a decade of cybernothing.org
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org> registered 24 June 1995
