RE: Unplugging spamming PCs

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

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.

LP
 
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Larry
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
Petri Helenius
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:15 PM
To: Sam Hayes Merritt, III
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Unplugging spamming PCs


Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote:

> Proactive would be blocking port 25 except to comcast.net's mail
servers,
> at least on retail users without static IPs, and then opening it up if
> the customer cannot work around it by using comcast's mail server to
send
> out. Thats what responsible ISPs have done.
>  
No, that would be punishing before the crime happened. Responsible would

be to punish swiftly after the fact, but not before.

Pete