Open, anonymous services and dealing with abuse

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Rob Pickering wrote:
> --On 13 February 2004 09:27 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > Yeeee-Haw!  A return to the Old West of bangbaths and pathalias.
> >
> > No thanks.
>
> That's absolutely the issue with emerging resignation to "e-mail
> peering" and the like being the only solution to the spam problem.

The unfortunate fact is lots of people like to operate open, anonymous
services and then expect other people to clean up after them.

Why don't IRC operators require authentication of their users?
        ISPs should block 6667

Why don't SMTP operators require authentication of their users?
        ISPs should block 25

Why don't NETBIOS operators require authentication of their users?
        ISPs should block 135, 137-139, 445

Why don't P2P operators require authentication of their users?
        ISPs should block everything