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In message <[email protected]>, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" writes: >At 06:35 PM 9/30/98 -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote: >>On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 04:19:44PM -0500, Jeremy Porter wrote: >> >>> Not that I would advocate such activity, but unless there >>> exists an extradition treaty that allows for computer trespass >>> or denial of service attacks, I imagine that a few weeks of >>> being hacked and DoS attacks would have them reconsidering >>> the fee's that they charge to spam houses. >> >>I hope you're kidding. >> >>This statement is an order of magnitude dumber than anything Barry's >>contributed to this thread. > >Agreed! SPAM-L has determined, over years of operation (including getting >CyberPromo busted out of Agis), that the most effective policy is >reasonable complaint, followed by blackholing (a la RBL). Any "Cracker" or >DoS attacks simply open you up for criminal charges and actually place the >spam-haus in a favorable light wrt LEOs. They then become the "oh so >innocent and helpless" victim. Also, there are a lot of TO SLDs that aren't >spam-hauses. The normal SPAM complaint process to their upstream providers >usually does the trick, regardless of what domain they're in. So what you are saying is that Barry has a perfectly functional method of dealing with the problem and all the rest of this is a complete and utter waste of our time. Mr Sobol's comments doubly so, as they add no new information. --- Jeremy Porter, Freeside Communications, Inc. [email protected] PO BOX 80315 Austin, Tx 78708 | 512-458-9810 http://www.fc.net
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