Re: A question for the list...

[Ray Stirbei <me () highentropy org>]

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Its close in that spamming is unethical, at least according to IAB/rfc1087. It 
is also illegal in some states (http://www.spamlaws.com/us.html) and there 
were some trials.  

I could be wrong, but I suspect striking back in the context of Tim's proposal 
and others on this thread meant disabling the attacking host directly. To me, 
spam RBLs are analogous to packet filters that drop traffic from specific 
hosts attempting to connect to your network. 

ray


> > I have isolate the item above since it contains the gist of your
> > question.  My personal feeling is that sooner or later the owners of the
> > mis-managed devices in question will be held to the legal definition of
> > negligence which covers the "failure to take safe guards used by a
> > reasonable and prudent individual".
>
> I don't think that this is the case.
> Not that it couldn't be the case, but if
> we say, Use "spammer" in place of worm host,,,
>
> Many of us feel that spamming as it is practiced
> (just about every way possible) is not proper network
> use, and is in fact willful mismanagement. No one
> is actually being taken to task, so many folks
> have adopted a somewhat passive strike back by
> using black hole lists to disallow access to
> their sections of the network.
>
> Isn't this sort of the same thing?
>
>
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