RE: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks?

[Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld () andromedas com>]

I like Segal's DoS idea, except instead of the packet generators, let's
be nice and just DDoS port 25 on the sunzofbiatches mail servers/load
balancers...

fight fire with fire... :)

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 20:39, Scott Silzer wrote:
> That is exactly what was done to  to Futureway  a third party spammed 
> for a site hosted by a downstream ISP and the result was there entire 
> network begging blacklisted by SPEWS.
>
> At 15:41 -0800 12/10/2002, David Schwartz wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:45:29 -0500, Scott Silzer wrote:
> >
> > > I could understand if an ISP was allowing spam from a portion of
> > > there network.  But in this case the only thing that the ISP did is
> > > host a website, the SPAM was sent from from a third party's network.
> > > The ISP did terminate the customer but in the meantime the entire
> > > NSP's network has been blacklisted, for a rouge webhosting account
> > > does sound a bit harsh.
> >
> >     A spam blocking service that worked that way would be 
> > useless. Anyone could
> > get any site they didn't like blacklisted simply by spamvertising it. Anyone
> > who uses a spam blocking list that works that way is DoSing themselves.
> >
> >     DS
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-JaL

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