Re: Mudslicking to counter SPAM (was TARPIT)
At 01:44 PM 3/2/00 +0100, Michael Koehne wrote:
> The most drastic method is "mudslicking" providers of foreign countries.
> IMHO mudslicking is the most effective method to counter SPAM.
This something you do NOT want to be on the wrong side of. IMHO spam is not
a serious enough offense to warrant it. When people get the idea that they
can control ISP's by starting a smear campaign with their other customers
there will be a *lot* of bloodshed on both sides. I have been the victim
such a campaign. One of my customers had a website that was anti-abortion;
needless to say it was contraversial. When cries to me to take down the
website didn't work, they turned to *my* upstream provider and started
contacting *their* customers. End result was that they threatened to pull
my T1 unless I canned the customer. This is ***NOT*** something that we
want the Internet community getting accustomed to.
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