Extreme spam testing

Tue Dec 23 22:25:56 UTC 2003

On 23 Dec 2003, Paul Vixie wrote:

> > You'd be hard pressed to frame what NJABL does in terms of "abuse",
> > because of the intent, and because of the actual bit volume involved.
>
> intent does not, and cannot, matter.  when an isp hears a complain about
> spam, and seeks explaination from their spamming customer, an answer of
> the form "we have only the best of intentions", then the result still has
> to be service disconnection.

Therefore, in accordance with your logic, if I have a "spam in hand", and
I probe your servers to determine if you're an open relay, I'm myself
spamming, and that is network abuse, and my ISP should disconnect me.

So intent doesn't matter, huh?

Andy

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Andy Dills
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