Spammers hapless fate = ISP toil and sweat

> Are you suggesting that some of these guys are connected directly
> to the backbone and thus able to make BGP announcements?

I don't know whether they are or not.  But the possibility should be
entertained.

>From a policy routing point of view, it's easier to filter our a
whole AS rather than mess around with single address prefixes.  This would
make a good deterrant for spammers not to use BGP.

Nick