Re: SPEWS?

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:41:45 PDT, william () elan net  said:

> But there is intermediate altenative - create organization with all isps 
> as its members (kind of like ARIN/APNIC/RIPE for mail service providers) 
> and have all downstream corporate customers be required to either also be 
> member of this organization or relay email through its isp. Do note that 

I'm *sure* that our connectivity provider will want us to forward us
several million pieces of email a day, just so they can forward it
along, if we decided to not join.  So we have our choices of joining
(probably with a membership fee), letting a provider that probably doesn't
want our load relay our mail (and that will cost *them* money for a mail
server hefty enough to do it), or filter port 25 because we didn't pay...

Looks like a good candidate for getting sued via RICO.  "An offer you can't
refused".  Hmm...

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech

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