Re: More on spamming..
- Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 14:17:26 +0200
Hi,
At 12:09 01.10.97 +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
>Long term:
>
>It doesn't solve it, but it helps it. One of the main problems is
>traceability. IE you don't know where the spam has come from. If
>noone third-party relayed, then when my users get spam, I'd know the
>IP address of the machine it came from originally. This would be
>good. Another necessary fix is for ISPs to keep record of which
>user had which IP address at any given time, and to keep contact
>details for all their users (this is desirable for secuirity and
>legal reasons too). If you build these two things together with
>a term in peering agreements that classifies spam abuse in a similar
>manner to the way most agreements currently classify security
>problems (i.e. mutual terms for traceability and action), and
>one hopes that similar terms are already in place in transit
>agreements, then one should be better able to get spammers
>removed.
But what, when there are laws, which disallow such loggins like
IP Address <-> Username at a specific time for a long time ?
Cu,
sh
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