Lawsuit threat against RBL users

Fri Nov 20 03:59:07 UTC 1998

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 03:25:25PM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> Ah, but there's the problem and Karl D. is right. The *real* answer is to
> do away with throw-away accounts. Yes, the provider of the throw-away
> account knows exactly who the spammer is (I won't go any deeper than that),
> they have a CC number. If that data matches our customer, that customer
> becomes $1500US poorer and stops being our customer. Tracing a spam to a
> particular dail-in port is not easy, but it's do-able. You then know who
> the provider is/was.

It's actually not that hard for a smallish provider like NACS. I imagine
the big dialup wholesale outifts would have quite a bit more work to do,
though.

-- 
Steve Sobol [sjsobol at nacs.net]
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