RE: Unplugging spamming PCs

["Larry Pingree" <lpingree () juniper net>]

        What I am proposing is have a registry that you must register
with before other mail servers will accept mail from you. Similar to how
MAPS RBL works, but the mail server itself, enforces it, rather than a
firewall or a ancillary device ACL. This could be made a standard of
SMTP.

LP
 
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Larry
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Shen [mailto:jshen () spymac com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:36 PM
To: Larry Pingree
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: RE: Unplugging spamming PCs

Hi,

> Mail servers should be registered just like domains and shutdown by a
> registrar if they are misusing their registered services. This really
> needs to be handled by a multi-lateral legal solution, industry will
not
> fix it alone.

No, I don't think this is good solution


First of all, we could not ask customers to register everything they
planned with leased line without legal reasons. 
Second,  if I hire DSL/leased_line service  from ISP and set up domain
name for myself,  ISP could not ask me to 
tell them which port should be opened as I'm not taking a firewalling
service, I'm not a member of my service provider.
I should be able to do anything that are not perhibited by law or affact
someothers.  

 Blocking_port_25 indicates  ISP  pre-assume that customers  will SPAM
their network.  But, SPAMmer is just a very small 
group of people.  Maybe most of them comes from other countries ( what
happens in China).  

To me,  the proper way of anti-spam may ask cooperation between ISPs and
Email service providers.  Anyway, 
strengthening anti-spam ability in Email server is a must.

regards

Joe 



> LP
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Larry


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