At 05:33 PM 10/29/98 -0500, Scott Gifford wrote:
An interesting answer to the problem you discussed above was suggested by somebody from the EFF at a spam BOF at USENIX this summer. He suggested that by default, you filter on port 25. But if somebody needs access for legitimate reasons, or even if they don't, have a letter they can fill out, sign, and send in which states that they will not send spam, subject to a $500/message penalty. Then if they do, just bill them.
One problem is that the wholesale provider may not have permission to do this. You must obtain permission from a party to the communication prior to interfering with it, unless it qualifies as an abuse. You should be aware that the pro-spammers have a bill in Congress to explicitly define spam as a legitimate activity, ie not an abuse. It will likely be passed in this session. I tried to tell people a year and a half ago that spammers were closely associated with an advertising lobby that would be effective on this is issue, and that they needed to try a more reasonable approach. But they insisted "I was wrong". So "Spam fighting" is now a lost cause, which should not be discussed on Nanog anyway. --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean@av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++