North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers
On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 01:42:08PM +0201, Alan Barrett wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Phil Lawlor wrote: > > To the best of my knowledge, we only blocked mailbombers. Someone here > > from AGIS can correct me if I am wrong. > > You lie. You blocked me. I have never in my life sent a mailbomb. > > Oh, I sent lots of complaints to AGIS, but every complaint was in response > to spam that somebody associated with AGIS had sent me, every complaint > required me to do a significant amount of research, and no incoming > spam resulted in more than one complaint. Such complaints are not > mailbombs. > > --apb (Alan Barrett) That's all right. They blocked me too, for the same thing (one complaint per spam). >From where I sit that's nothing new, but its also ok - we reciprocated, and blocked a huge number of AGIS-distributed networks (basically anything that a spammer was connected to). Guess what? Spam volume went WAY down. Heh, a few legitimate customers might have been inconvenienced, but when [email protected][owner-of-network] bounces with a "access denied", that's all you have left. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | NEW! K56Flex modem support is now available Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| 56kbps DIGITAL ISDN DOV on analog lines! Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal
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