Mail servers should be registered just like domains and shutdown by a registrar if they are misusing their registered services. This really needs to be handled by a multi-lateral legal solution, industry will not fix it alone. LP Best Regards, Larry Larry Pingree Partner Engineering Juniper Networks, Inc. 408-543-2190 "Visionary people, are visionary, partly because of the great many things they never get to see." - Larry Pingree Juniper Networks Logo -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Petri Helenius Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:15 PM To: Sam Hayes Merritt, III Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Unplugging spamming PCs Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote:
Proactive would be blocking port 25 except to comcast.net's mail
servers,
at least on retail users without static IPs, and then opening it up if the customer cannot work around it by using comcast's mail server to send out. Thats what responsible ISPs have done.
No, that would be punishing before the crime happened. Responsible would be to punish swiftly after the fact, but not before. Pete