How do you stop outgoing spam?

Al Rowland alan_r1 at corp.earthlink.net
Tue Sep 10 15:59:33 UTC 2002


Okay, I'm going to break my promise, 

Can anyone document more than one isolated instance, if that, of
spammers using North American Cyber Cafes? (This is NANOG)

If so, wouldn't appropriate AUP with appropriate fines to the CC the
user used for access be a more appropriate sniper rifle shot rather than
just shot gunning all your users?

As far as 'loading' spam software, any Cyber Café that has the cpu out
where Joe User has access and/or hasn't set appropriate user rights
preventing software installation or system access, won't be in business
very long anyway.

Best regards,
_________________________
Alan Rowland


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Iljitsch van Beijnum
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:49 PM
To: Marshall Eubanks
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?



On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

> > Ok, suppose someone can touch type. The world record is something 
> > like 600 key presses per minute, which is 10 41-byte TCP packets per

> > second ~= 4 kbps.

> When I go to Internet cafe's (I like Global Gossip), I connect my 
> Ti-book to the local ethernet if at all possible (that's why I like 
> Global Gossip) and use high bit rates (i.e., file transfers) in both 
> direction.

Would the uploads be HTTP? That's the only thing I'd want to limit to a
few kbps. (Well, and outgoing SMTP to 0 kbps.)

> If I was limited to 4 kbps outbound, I would want my money back.

> Just one customer viewpoint :)

Understandable. On the other hand, spammers using internet cafes isn't
good either.





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