Spammers hapless fate = ISP toil and sweat

At 16:01 17.09.97 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>Have RIPE send a formal letter to AGIS and the IEMMC who 
>houses most of these creep, and tell them that either they will
>cease to send spam to the following list of top level domains:
>{be, dk, ...} effectively today or the RIPE will orchestrate 
>a pan-european filtering of all AGIS and IEMMC member networks 
>until such filtering is in place.  It should be pretty simple to 
>simply filter all routes based on AGIS AS#(s), and maybe inject 
>a bogus route for the IEMMC members networks.

That sounds like a good idea.  Hmm...  What about rejecting in the
router; access-lists?  That's what we mostly use, and that would
drop SMTP-connections, and make the spammer wait for timeout on
every SMTP-connection.  Also, he won't get a "Connection Refused",
so as far as he knows, he might just have a bad link, or a server
might be down in the other end.

The problem about fighting spam, is that most things we do, also
affects legitimate users.  And that would ruin the point about 
everybody standing together against spam.

Also, blocking for relaying is against the RFC.  Perhaps someone
should write a new one, that only deals with spam and how to prevent
it, and what to prevent?  Would this be a good task for this forum?


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Ina Faye-Lund
Telenor Nextel AS