At 08:26 AM 11/19/98 -0800, Sean Finn wrote:
At 11:39 PM 11/18/98 -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
That's right. It stops the practice of using a sacrificial account, from AOL or netcom, to spam for a web-site that is otherwise protected. Does it make a difference that they didn't spam from their own ISP?
Please allow me a moment to ask:
Does it make any difference whether your customer actually originated the offending msgs?
Couldn't such a spamset come from one of their competitor?
Or a chat room hacker that got pissed off?
I understand AUP regarding what actually happens on an account.
Unless the "throwaway" account can be tied to your customer, then I don't understand the justification for compromising service.
Ah, but there's the problem and Karl D. is right. The *real* answer is to do away with throw-away accounts. Yes, the provider of the throw-away account knows exactly who the spammer is (I won't go any deeper than that), they have a CC number. If that data matches our customer, that customer becomes $1500US poorer and stops being our customer. Tracing a spam to a particular dail-in port is not easy, but it's do-able. You then know who the provider is/was.
(I personally don't find "it's generally true", or "it's too much trouble", or "the end justifies the means" to be especially convincing arguments.)
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