More on spamming..
Stephan Hermann sh at nwu.de
Wed Oct 1 14:17:26 CEST 1997
Hi, At 12:09 01.10.97 +0100, Alex Bligh wrote: >Long term: > >It doesn't solve it, but it helps it. One of the main problems is >traceability. IE you don't know where the spam has come from. If >noone third-party relayed, then when my users get spam, I'd know the >IP address of the machine it came from originally. This would be >good. Another necessary fix is for ISPs to keep record of which >user had which IP address at any given time, and to keep contact >details for all their users (this is desirable for secuirity and >legal reasons too). If you build these two things together with >a term in peering agreements that classifies spam abuse in a similar >manner to the way most agreements currently classify security >problems (i.e. mutual terms for traceability and action), and >one hopes that similar terms are already in place in transit >agreements, then one should be better able to get spammers >removed. But what, when there are laws, which disallow such loggins like IP Address <-> Username at a specific time for a long time ? Cu, sh -- Stephan Hermann, techn. Leiter Netzwerk u. Telekommunikation eMail: sh at nwu.de NWU Gesellschaft fuer Netzwerke und Telekommunikation mbH Tel.: +49-231-9860143 Heinrichstr. 51, 44536 Luenen FAX : +49-231-9860148 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 355 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/lir-wg/attachments/19971001/50755ba5/attachment.sig>
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