On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
I'll admit, we had an issue with a customer who spammed, and it took us a little while to zap him.
Quantify "a little while". (I'm not trying to be argumentative here...)
Nevertheless, he was zapped. He had a /27, and SPEWs listed the entire /24 surrounding it. When I asked about this, they said, in not-so-many-words, that by doing this, punishing innocent bystanders, that as long as the ISP noticed and fixed the issue, this was essentially OK to do.
I agree with that, *if* initial notifications to the ISP are ignored. Escalations are then in order, definitely. -- Steve Sobol, CTO JustThe.net LLC, Mentor On The Lake, OH 888.480.4NET - I do my best work with one of my cockatiels sitting on each shoulder - 6/4/02:A USA TODAY poll found that 80% of Catholics advocated a zero-tolerance stance towards abusive priests. The fact that 20% didn't, scares me...