Would there be legal issues if the peers at the NAP/MAE etc. simply discarded traffic from the known spammer netblocks such as thehitman.com based on an acceptable use policy that prohibits sites which support spammer business?
it's probably important to avoid the appearance of a conspiracy. i will be blocking selected IP ranges for systems i handle, and i will be selecting them myself -- although the company i work for may sign up for the blackhole list (something that i thought was a done deal but which is still being discussed.) the judge handling the Compu$erve vs Cyberpromotions case inidicated that Compu$erve's network was C$'s private property, and therefore Spamford is not supposed to continue to send email into it after being told to cease and desist. so block those netblocks, but you probably want to pick which ones you block on your own. cheers, richard -- Richard Welty welty@inet-solutions.net http://www.inet-solutions.net/~welty/ 888-311-INET