Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

Ben Browning benb at theriver.com
Thu Jun 24 19:17:29 UTC 2004


At 11:34 PM 6/23/2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>I'd also point out someting that any provider will tell you: "Spammers
>never pay their bills."

Yes, but this is not a problem for a large carrier, as the people that 
receive it sure do. In other words, the money you lose on the spammer is 
subsidized by all the people that pay you to receive it.

>This is, in fact (for you nanae watchers), the
>reason that most of them get canceled by us FASTER... Sadly, non-payment
>is often a quicker and easier method to term a customer than 'abuse', less
>checks since there is no 'percieved revenue' :(

A revenue check has no place in abuse terminations.
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    Ben Browning <benb at theriver.com>
       The River Internet Access Co.
          WA Operations Manager
1-877-88-RIVER  http://www.theriver.com




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