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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Slightly OT: Looking for an old domain for spam collection
> The conclusion of that thread can be found here: > http://www.merit.edu/mailinglist/mailarchives/old_archive/msg04555.html Thanks! > A word of caution. When attempting to collect IP address based abuse > information, spoofed BGP announcements MUST be tracked as well. This > topic or even mention of ASNs was excluded in the "Guidelines for > Management of DNS-Based Reputation Systems for Email" written by Yakov > Shafranovich, Nick Nicholas, Matt Sergeant, and Chris Lewis and > published by Nick Nicholas on the ASRG reflector. This paper ironically > excluded the role of the provider. We're not going to be using the data as a honey pot, so it won't affect anyone's reputation. This is really just for "real-world" load testing and evaluation of new techniques. Our customers get lots of mail, but we have to be -- how shall I say -- careful with it! > A cooperative effort by providers is likely the _only_ viable solution > for dealing with this chronic problem. Targeted abuse is also unlikely > to be detected from disposed MX domains, but will detect amateurs. I agree whole-heartedly. What is particularly missing IMHO is a spoofed-BGP-route blacklist. Anyone making any progress on that sort of thing? Regards, Ken -- Ken Simpson, CEO MailChannels Corporation Reliable Email Delivery (tm) http://www.mailchannels.com
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