Come one mate, there's no need to be just outright insulting people. Sure everyone disagrees on some things, but still... Lets play out this scenario then. What would you recommend ARIN actually do? I don't mean 'take a stance' or 'have an opinion', but rather what process should in your mind they be following? There are still other avenues. I mentioned in a previous email about IETF or a working group to come up with ideas and methods to combat spam and abuse. If you put as much time into one of them as you do fighting with the spammers directly and ARIN, then you might actually end up solving the problem at the core! I really don't want to drag this anti-spam stuff out. There's been a huge amount of posting these last few days over this (of which I am a culprit also), but I do think its valuable to hit this nail on the head. In other words, perhaps other people on this list are getting a bit fed up with it, so lets just sort it out and quickly..