Ok on a serious note can we not try to solve the spam problem here? its a never ending loop (tech problem or social problem who cares.. its a problem and we all know it, be a good operator and kill anyone who wants to spam on your network).
On a not-so-serious note maybe if we just assigned spammers 69.0.0.0/8 ip space the problem would take care of itself. -Scotty ----- Original Message ----- From: "hostmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks? > > > The only solution for eliminating spam is a radical change in social > behavior of those whom are causing, allowing and facilitating it. All > reasonable attempts to do so have failed, mainly due to commercial > interests. Thus only a primitive and for some painful interference > helps. Though few want to admit it, as long as all the backbones - > unanimously - are not seriously addressing this problem, and factually > accept the financial consequences of cut off's, and forcefully propagate > those policies to whomever is connected to them, only the hard way remains. > I advocate that spews and others are tough, but apparently necessary means. > The more spam, the harder the action-pack to combat it. > The problem is not necessarily only Korea, Nigeria, Costa Rica, etc. We, in > the US are a significant source of this activity ourselves, probably the > biggest. Painfully enough we lack the initiative to set a standard for the > rest for the World. > > best, > > Bert > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >