[8430] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sat Mar 29 16:57:38 1997
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 13:46:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: spam-list@psc.edu
cc: jhc@lynxhub.att.com, nanog@merit.edu, spam@zorch.sf-bay.org
In-Reply-To: <199703292132.QAA14080@newdev.harvard.edu>
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Scott Bradner wrote:
> --
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that the
> Electronic Communications Act of 1986 (?) makes it quite illegal to screw
> around with mail that you have accepted for delivery.
> --
>
> spammers bill of rights? kinda don't think that would have been the
> aim.
I think that you can comply with the ECPA by simply bouncing back the
email to the sender and only if that is not possible, then drop it in
/dev/null. Since spammers almost always have bogus reply addresses you
shouldn't run into a problem with this even if you are a relay since once
you have failed to bounce back one message, you can then add that source
address to a list that you refuse to accept email from.
If there is a way that spammers can launch a lawsuit against AT&T on the
basis of the ECPA then I am sure they will try so it's best to be
proactive here.
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
