[anti-abuse-wg] Antispam measures

Triggered by this email thread I decided to take a closer look at data
for Ukrtelecom using the Resource Explainer tool we presented at RIPE59.
Here are my findings:
http://labs.ripe.net/node/85

Hope people find it useful.

best regards,
Emile Aben
RIPE NCC Research Engineer


Chimel Chimel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure this mailing list is still active, the latest archived
> mail dates back from over a year ago.
> I have 3 questions for this mailing list:
> 
> 1) Does RIPE or other registrars impose antispam fighting measures or a
> code of conduct to the ISPs or telcos it allocates IP ranges to?
> For instance, do these registrar customers specifically sign an
> agreement never to post spam themselves. Do they also sign an agreement
> to terminate IP sub-allocation or contract with their own customers who
> are using their IP addresses to post spam?
> 
> 2) If there is such measures, how does RIPE enforce them?
> 
> 3) What does RIPE intends to do about Ukrtelecom, who is alone
> responsible for hundreds of thousands of daily spam posts in discussion
> forums and BBSs?
> According to the people in stopforumspam.com, every single post
> emanating from ukrtelecom is spam, there is not a single genuine user
> from that telco.
> How can RIPE allocate hundreds of separate IP ranges to this single
> telco, especially if it is only a support for spam, not a telco at all.
> When querying the RIPE database for ukrtelecom, it returns 300 IP
> ranges, but that's only because the web site is limited to 300 answers.
> I'd like to see the whole list in order to ban it all from my forum,
> even if it means banning genuine users from Ukraine.
> And of course, when I say ukrtelecom is a spammer site, I really means
> it is a mafia site that makes millions of dollars every month in illegal
> activities, selling dangerous fake medicines such as viagra or tamiflu.
> In these times of IP addresses shortening, it would make a lot more IPs
> available if the registrars would cancel IP allocation from the
> customers who break the antispam rules.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chimel.
> 
> By the way, a BBS seems to be a more adequate way than a mailing list to
> handle this kind of discussion. Just my 2 cents.
> 
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