Spammers hapless fate = ISP toil and sweat

In message <199709181044.LAA19136 at beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie>, Nick Hilliard writ
es:
>> 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.

And for ISPs not to host them.

So far, all the spammers I have had to deal with have been hosted 
under AGIS, although a few of them use random dial-in accounts for
actually sending their spam.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk at FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."