[anti-abuse-wg] Antispam measures
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Emile Aben
emile.aben at ripe.net
Thu Oct 22 14:48:10 CEST 2009
Triggered by this email thread I decided to take a closer look at data for Ukrtelecom using the Resource Explainer tool we presented at RIPE59. Here are my findings: http://labs.ripe.net/node/85 Hope people find it useful. best regards, Emile Aben RIPE NCC Research Engineer Chimel Chimel wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure this mailing list is still active, the latest archived > mail dates back from over a year ago. > I have 3 questions for this mailing list: > > 1) Does RIPE or other registrars impose antispam fighting measures or a > code of conduct to the ISPs or telcos it allocates IP ranges to? > For instance, do these registrar customers specifically sign an > agreement never to post spam themselves. Do they also sign an agreement > to terminate IP sub-allocation or contract with their own customers who > are using their IP addresses to post spam? > > 2) If there is such measures, how does RIPE enforce them? > > 3) What does RIPE intends to do about Ukrtelecom, who is alone > responsible for hundreds of thousands of daily spam posts in discussion > forums and BBSs? > According to the people in stopforumspam.com, every single post > emanating from ukrtelecom is spam, there is not a single genuine user > from that telco. > How can RIPE allocate hundreds of separate IP ranges to this single > telco, especially if it is only a support for spam, not a telco at all. > When querying the RIPE database for ukrtelecom, it returns 300 IP > ranges, but that's only because the web site is limited to 300 answers. > I'd like to see the whole list in order to ban it all from my forum, > even if it means banning genuine users from Ukraine. > And of course, when I say ukrtelecom is a spammer site, I really means > it is a mafia site that makes millions of dollars every month in illegal > activities, selling dangerous fake medicines such as viagra or tamiflu. > In these times of IP addresses shortening, it would make a lot more IPs > available if the registrars would cancel IP allocation from the > customers who break the antispam rules. > > Thanks, > Chimel. > > By the way, a BBS seems to be a more adequate way than a mailing list to > handle this kind of discussion. Just my 2 cents. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Gratuit : Hotmail plus rapide avec Internet Explorer 8 ! Cliquez ici ! > <http://www.microsoft.com/france/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/msn/default.aspx>
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