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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users
On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 03:25:25PM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > Ah, but there's the problem and Karl D. is right. The *real* answer is to > do away with throw-away accounts. Yes, the provider of the throw-away > account knows exactly who the spammer is (I won't go any deeper than that), > they have a CC number. If that data matches our customer, that customer > becomes $1500US poorer and stops being our customer. Tracing a spam to a > particular dail-in port is not easy, but it's do-able. You then know who > the provider is/was. It's actually not that hard for a smallish provider like NACS. I imagine the big dialup wholesale outifts would have quite a bit more work to do, though. -- Steve Sobol [[email protected]] Part-time Support Droid [[email protected]] NACS Spaminator [[email protected]] Spotted on a bumper sticker: "Possum. The other white meat."
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