Suggestion for NANOG Meeting

Mon Jan 20 17:05:11 UTC 1997

Ok, Let me put in my two cents worth on this can of worms I just opened.

As a carrier, I know that we should not and can not filter/censor/monitor
any content on our "pipes".  This includes unsolicited emails,
pornography, whatever, but there comes a point where the amount time to
respond these issues that I can not perform the job I am paid to do.   I
have a large network to maintain, I don't have time to worry about issues
except ones that directly effect how I run my network.  But since I am the
contact listed for various networks, RA entries, etc, I always get brought
into the middle of the battle.  So, I am not asking for a meeting to
form policy, I am asking for a meeting to know how other providers are
dealing with this problem without just dropping the emails of angry
recepients into the bit bucket, which is not an solution.

Eric

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      Eric D. Madison - Senior Network Engineer -   
 ACSI - Advanced Data Services - ATM/IP Backbone Group  
   24 Hour NMC/NOC (800)291-7889 Email: noc at acsi.net

On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Avi Freedman wrote:

> > We are not ignoring the complaints.  I have contacted the spammers and
> > asked them to stop the unsolicited emails.  Problem is that they are not
> > always our direct customer, so they see us as no threat since we are not
> > their direct upstream provider.  I would just like to see what other large
> > providers are doing about this problem so we can come to a common policy.
> > 
> > Eric
> 
> As I said, a meeting about this would be good...
> If consensus builds perhaps a community document would then be in order...
> 
> Avi
> 
> 