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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: RBL quandry - opinions hereby solicited
At 02:17 11/16/98 -0800, you wrote: >The RBL team and I are kind of wondering what to do about some spam we got. >Because blackholing NSI would be of operational concern to a lot of you, I've >decided to ponder this question out loud: Really, on this one, we're all pretty much screwed. You can't blackhole them because, as you say, there's nowhere else to go. Normally, in the spamfight, we'd go to their upstreams and complain and possibly cost the spammer their connectivity...but who's going to disconnect InterNIC? The really sad part is that there is no way to avoid this problem with NSI. The head cheese at Verisign is on the Board of Directors at NSI, so the spam WILL continue. There's no mallet we can hold over their head like we could any other spammer because their connectivity is safe. This is yet another example of the arrogance of NSI. They well know how the 'Netizens feel about spam, and they feel that the loosest of contacts is sufficient to justify the spam (I've gotten it, and I don't have a domain nor am I a contact for any domain...I'm just on their RS-TALK listserv). Yet they spam. Blatant disregard for anyone but their own greedy selves. Sadly...they can get away with it because of who they are and the position they occupy. I actually pray for the day when someone supplants their sorry butts... Spammers should be investigated by Ken Starr! Dean Robb PC-EASY computer services (757) 495-EASY [3279]
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