[anti-abuse-wg] Spam FAQs need revision

Frank 

Most of us run private networks. I can't see why or how we could be "obliged" to grant anyone free access.

It makes no sense to me. None

Regards

Michele


On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:30, Frank Gadegast wrote:

>>> 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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