North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Scott Bradner wrote: > -- > Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that the > Electronic Communications Act of 1986 (?) makes it quite illegal to screw > around with mail that you have accepted for delivery. > -- > > spammers bill of rights? kinda don't think that would have been the > aim. I think that you can comply with the ECPA by simply bouncing back the email to the sender and only if that is not possible, then drop it in /dev/null. Since spammers almost always have bogus reply addresses you shouldn't run into a problem with this even if you are a relay since once you have failed to bounce back one message, you can then add that source address to a list that you refuse to accept email from. If there is a way that spammers can launch a lawsuit against AT&T on the basis of the ECPA then I am sure they will try so it's best to be proactive here. Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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