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Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol () nacs net>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:59:07 -0500
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 [sjsobol () nacs net] Part-time Support Droid [support () nacs net] NACS Spaminator [abuse () nacs net] Spotted on a bumper sticker: "Possum. The other white meat."
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- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users, (continued)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Ray Everett-Church (Nov 18)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Jon Lewis (Nov 18)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Eric Anderson (Nov 18)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Paul Vixie (Nov 19)
- Re: Best Practices for Being Permanently Added to the RBL Ben Black (Nov 18)
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- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Sheryl Chapin (Nov 19)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Dan Maus (Nov 19)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Rich Sena (Nov 21)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Sheryl Chapin (Nov 19)
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- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Sean Finn (Nov 19)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Roeland M.J. Meyer (Nov 19)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Steven J. Sobol (Nov 19)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Roeland M.J. Meyer (Nov 19)
- Reporting abuse (was Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users) J.D. Falk (Nov 20)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Sean Finn (Nov 19)