Ok on a serious note can we not try to solve the spam problem here? its a never ending loop (tech problem or social problem who cares.. its a problem and we all know it, be a good operator and kill anyone who wants to spam on your network). On a not-so-serious note maybe if we just assigned spammers 69.0.0.0/8 ip space the problem would take care of itself. -Scotty ----- Original Message ----- From: "hostmaster" <hostmaster@nso.org> To: <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks?
The only solution for eliminating spam is a radical change in social behavior of those whom are causing, allowing and facilitating it. All reasonable attempts to do so have failed, mainly due to commercial interests. Thus only a primitive and for some painful interference helps. Though few want to admit it, as long as all the backbones - unanimously - are not seriously addressing this problem, and factually accept the financial consequences of cut off's, and forcefully propagate those policies to whomever is connected to them, only the hard way
I advocate that spews and others are tough, but apparently necessary means. The more spam, the harder the action-pack to combat it. The problem is not necessarily only Korea, Nigeria, Costa Rica, etc. We, in the US are a significant source of this activity ourselves, probably the biggest. Painfully enough we lack the initiative to set a standard for
remains. the
rest for the World.
best,
Bert hostmaster@nso.org