[anti-abuse-wg] Spam FAQs need revision

>> In many cases it is certainly proper and allowed to block another network

Should be allowed in all cases.

I guess there is no law wherever in the world that disallows me to
protect my own services from abuse.
And no law whatsoever that pushes me, that I have to communicate
with everybody in the world, even if I dont want to.
That will make every antivirus- or firewall-software illegal.

Dont simply think of abuse as spam, abuse is more
(e.g. every day, we have idiots, that are trying to guess
mailbox passwords or that try to log into network
appliances, wich only have an IP and no domain pointing to them,
surely until their IPs get captured and blocked, our IDS
and firewall logs are full of this crap).

And how could it be defamation, if we try to reach the responsible 
network abuse contact, to inform them, that they have a security
breach and that one of their servers or dialin clients got
hi-jacked ?

Blacklist do not accuse anybody, they are simply informative
and tell people that there might be a problem ...

> Huh?
>
> How is listing an IP or netblock as a source of network abuse defamatory?
>
> That's the kind of defence used by spammers

... and harvesters :o)


Kind regards, Frank

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