Despamming wholesale dialup

Fri Oct 30 22:42:50 UTC 1998

Give it a rest.  You won't be stopping spam.  Dream on if you like. 

But take it off Nanog.

		--Dean

At 04:30 PM 10/30/98 -0500, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 01:52:19PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
>
>> One problem is that the wholesale provider may not have permission to do
>> this. You must obtain permission from a party to the communication prior to
>> interfering with it, unless it qualifies as an abuse.  
>
>Don't start again, Dean.
> 
>> You should be aware that the pro-spammers have a bill in Congress to
>> explicitly define spam as a legitimate activity, ie not an abuse.  It will
>> likely be passed in this session.
>
>Wrong. It died. Unfortunately, the telephone anti-slamming bill died with
>it - the spam rider was attached to the anti-slamming bill.
>
>>I tried to tell people a year and a half
>> ago that spammers were closely associated with an advertising lobby that
>> would be effective on this is issue, and that they needed to try a more
>> reasonable approach. But they insisted "I was wrong". 
>
>You're still wrong. The DMA and its members seem to be adopting a wait-and-
>see attitude, although they seem to be moving towards action...
> 
>> So "Spam fighting" is now a lost cause
>
>Whatever.
>
>> which should not be discussed on Nanog anyway.  
>
>Which doesn't stop you from whining about spamfighters every few months
>anyhow.
>
>
>-- 
>Steve Sobol [sjsobol at nacs.net]
>Part-time Support Droid [support at nacs.net]
>NACS Spaminator [abuse at nacs.net]
>
>Spotted on a bumper sticker: "Possum. The other white meat."
>
>
>
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