[anti-abuse-wg] Economic incentives for more cooperation in fighting spam (new article on RIPE Labs)

On 8 Jul 2010, at 09:16, Richard Cox wrote:

> Brian Nisbet <brian.nisbet at heanet.ie> wrote:
> 
>> At RIPE 55 it was agreed by the community that to focus on spam at this
>> point was the wrong way to tackle the problem and so the group changed,
>> both in name and charter, to become what it is now.  I do not believe
>> there is any strong feeling in the community to reverse that decision,
>> nor do I think there is any organisational or technical reason to do so.
> 
> I fully endorse that view, and everything else Brian wrote.
> 
>> The RIPE NCC has members, but the RIPE community, of which the AA-WG
>> is a part has none.  I suspect "participants" is the best word to use.
> 
> I think what Peter meant there, was Internet users in the RIPE service
> region.  Of which "participants" are, sadly, no more than a small subset.
> 
> The point of the name-change was that we can no longer separate "pure"
> spam from the many other abusive activities that are needed to enable it,
> while spam itself is the conduit for other abusive and criminal activity.
> In other words, e-crime and abuse has become a self-sustaining eco-system.

Very true

Abuse of all types is interconnected.


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