word salad spam

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
>G.Waleed Kavalec wrote:
>>PS
>>
>>In my humble opinion it is time to start pressuring the upstream big 
>>players.
>>
>>They conduct spam from their clients, they could detect it, they could
>>put in AUPs.
>>
>>They don't because it makes them money and mid range players don't
>>make it an issue.
>>
>[snip]
>>
>>
>
>That would mean that providers actually screen traffic in a meaningful 
>way.  Could the G'ment then use that to demand that they be held 
>accountable for all traffic?  Could logs of types of traffic be 
>demanded?  The results are icky if either answer is yes.

I don't think the ISPs need to screen traffic, only to deal with customers
who cause the ISP problems (e.g. getting the ISP's mail servers blacklisted
by AOL because of a spamming client machine).

We haven't had problems with our ISP customers, and I attribute that to my
telling them that they have a choice to make.  They can support (or ignore)
abusive customers, or get support from us.  We configure their mail aliases
so that mail to their abuse and security addresses sends a copy to us as
well as to the ISP's people.

Bill
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