[Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:20:33AM +0700] Dr. Jeffrey Race Inscribed these words...
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:05:41 +0000 (GMT), Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
Sure, customer of a customer we got emailtools.com kicked from their original 'home' now they've moved off (probably several times since 2000) to another customer. This happens to every ISP, each time they appear we start the process to disconnect them.
This is too flagrant to let pass without comment.
This "endless loop" situation does NOT happen to every ISP, only to those who have not emplaced procedures to prevent serial signups of serial abusers. This is trivially easy to do and your firm's failure to do so and to enforce this rule on your contracting parties definitively proves your management's decision to profit from spam rather than to stop spam.
I think you may be missing a major point. UUNET/MCI provides dedicated internet services to so many downstreams that it is impossible to stop spammers from signing up to those downstreams. Preventing spammers from signing up for UUNET/MCI services is, yes, trivial. Preventing spammers from signing up on a downstream of a downstream of a downstream etc is impossible.
Jeffrey Race
-- Stephen (routerg) irc.dks.ca