Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

Fri Jun 25 01:26:10 UTC 2004

Are you offering to finance ISP's legal battles against spammers?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu
To: Ben Browning
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Sent: 6/24/2004 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:50:44 -0700, Ben Browning wrote:

>Likewise, I imagine MCI could argue that the damage is to their core 
>product; namely, the trust of other ISPs and their willingness to
exchange 
>traffic with MCI.

This was Earthlink's argument in the case I cited in 
<http://www.camblab.com/nugget/spam_03.pdf>: their
connectivity was jeopardized by the spammer's activity.
As far as I know they prevailed.

The point is, we have not seen MCI go down valiantly on the
field of battle against the spammers in court or anywhere else.
I proposed a complete open-and-shut legal case to MCI, with
the perp's legal service address, and Neil Patel refused to take
any action.   The management's intention was clear: continue
to profit rather than take the perps to court.   All this talk about
how difficult it would be blah blah blah is just a smokescreen for
inaction

Jeffrey Race