On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:31:46PM +0000, Mel Beckman wrote:
Sometimes they're ignorant and don't realize they're spamming.
That excuse stopped being viable sometime in the last century. They know exactly what they're doing, they're just counting on the prospective gains to outweigh the prospective losses. If they're right, then the spamming will not only continue, it will increase. (As we've seen: over and over and over again.) That's because they don't care about being professional or responsible or ethical: they only care about profits. So the choice is clear: either make it plain to such "people" (if I may dignify sociopathic filth with that term) that this is absolutely unacceptable and that it will have serious, immediate, ongoing negative financial consequences, or do nothing while the problem escalates indefinitely. If you give people the means to hurt you, and they do it, and you take no action except to continue giving them the means to hurt you, and they take no action except to keep hurting you, then one of the ways you can describe the situation is "it isn't scaling well". --- Paul Vixie, on NANOG ---rsk