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RE: Unplugging spamming PCs

  • From: Larry Pingree
  • Date: Wed Jun 23 18:05:59 2004 
Mail servers should be registered just like domains and shutdown by a
registrar if they are misusing their registered services. This really
needs to be handled by a multi-lateral legal solution, industry will not
fix it alone.

LP
 
Best Regards,
 
Larry
 
Larry Pingree
Partner Engineering
Juniper Networks, Inc.
408-543-2190
 
"Visionary people, are visionary, partly because of the great many
things they never get to see." - Larry Pingree
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Petri Helenius
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:15 PM
To: Sam Hayes Merritt, III
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Unplugging spamming PCs


Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote:

>
>Proactive would be blocking port 25 except to comcast.net's mail
servers,
>at least on retail users without static IPs, and then opening it up if
>the customer cannot work around it by using comcast's mail server to
send
>out. Thats what responsible ISPs have done.
>  
>
No, that would be punishing before the crime happened. Responsible would

be to punish swiftly after the fact, but not before.

Pete