[Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:20:33AM +0700] Dr. Jeffrey Race Inscribed these words...
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:05:41 +0000 (GMT), Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > >Sure, customer of a customer we got emailtools.com kicked from their > >original 'home' now they've moved off (probably several times since 2000) > >to another customer. This happens to every ISP, each time they appear we > >start the process to disconnect them. > > This is too flagrant to let pass without comment. > > This "endless loop" situation does NOT happen to every ISP, only to those who > have not emplaced procedures to prevent serial signups of serial abusers. This is > trivially easy to do and your firm's failure to do so and to enforce this rule on > your > contracting parties definitively proves your management's decision to profit from > spam rather than to stop spam. > I think you may be missing a major point. UUNET/MCI provides dedicated internet services to so many downstreams that it is impossible to stop spammers from signing up to those downstreams. Preventing spammers from signing up for UUNET/MCI services is, yes, trivial. Preventing spammers from signing up on a downstream of a downstream of a downstream etc is impossible. > Jeffrey Race > > > -- Stephen (routerg) irc.dks.ca