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On Tue, 7 Jan 97 01:27:07 GMT, "William Allen Simpson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Moreover, it was very important to me to learn about this Sprint policy >of allowing spamming. I'm in the middle of writing the RFP evaluation >criteria for a fairly large network buy. In addition to the paragraphs >on accepting routes into its own address space for multihoming (which >disqualified Sprint earlier), I'll add some language that: > > [...] > - the service provider must have a written and enforcable policy > prohibiting any of its customers from sending any traffic to > recipients that have not requested the traffic -- including (but not > limited to) the sending of off-topic or unsolicited mail messages to > mailing list exploders, subsets of mailing list registrants, news > groups, and posters to news groups (termed "mail spamming"). The > requirement for a response to any such unsolicited message to prevent > future messages is unacceptable. What about the Web spamming, i.e. all these flashy dynamic GIFs that pop up on nearly every page and have no relation to its contents whatsoever? I don't really request all this trashy traffic either and my my browser's downloading them wastes my precious free hours online. > - the service provider must have the capability of isolating any > external network addresses and connections within 10 minutes of > notification about operational problems of its other customers and > network connections -- including (but not limited to) broadcast > flooding, connection flooding, routing loops, address spoofing, mail > spoofing, and mail spamming. > - The service provider will guarantee reimbursement of costs for each > minute (or fraction thereof) beyond the specified 10 minutes. > >I believe these will disqualify Sprint, too. Together with whom? Who is left qualified, anyway? >[email protected] >[email protected] Dima - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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