Re: Open relays and open proxies

["Jeffrey Race" <jrace () attglobal net>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:03:15 -0700 (PDT), Joe St Sauver wrote:

> approach, you'll need to convince AS9929's upstreams, Sprint and Cable 
and 
> Wireless, to pull the plug (which they probably won't do) or at least 
> convince them to enforce an acceptable use policy on their customers 
(which

You can *eventually* get Sprint to shut down offenders, but you
have to be extremely persistent and you have to get the name of
a human at the firm.   I never managed to do via their abuse
function.  I succeeded when I found a Sprint human on a discussion
group, whom I shamed into contacting the abusedroids internally.
It still took weeks :(

Jeffrey Race