Ok, Let me put in my two cents worth on this can of worms I just opened. As a carrier, I know that we should not and can not filter/censor/monitor any content on our "pipes". This includes unsolicited emails, pornography, whatever, but there comes a point where the amount time to respond these issues that I can not perform the job I am paid to do. I have a large network to maintain, I don't have time to worry about issues except ones that directly effect how I run my network. But since I am the contact listed for various networks, RA entries, etc, I always get brought into the middle of the battle. So, I am not asking for a meeting to form policy, I am asking for a meeting to know how other providers are dealing with this problem without just dropping the emails of angry recepients into the bit bucket, which is not an solution. Eric _______________________________________________________ Eric D. Madison - Senior Network Engineer - ACSI - Advanced Data Services - ATM/IP Backbone Group 24 Hour NMC/NOC (800)291-7889 Email: noc@acsi.net On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Avi Freedman wrote:
We are not ignoring the complaints. I have contacted the spammers and asked them to stop the unsolicited emails. Problem is that they are not always our direct customer, so they see us as no threat since we are not their direct upstream provider. I would just like to see what other large providers are doing about this problem so we can come to a common policy.
Eric
As I said, a meeting about this would be good... If consensus builds perhaps a community document would then be in order...
Avi