July 2010 - anti-abuse-wg - mailman.ripe.net

Economic incentives for more cooperation in fighting spam (new article on RIPE Labs)
by Mirjam Kuehne 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Dear colleagues, John S. Quarterman and his team at the University of Texas is advocating more cooperation in fighting spam. They are building models for economic incentives for Internet mail providers. Read more on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/content/cooperation-to-fight-spam The team is very interested to receive feedback from the RIPE community. Please note at the end of the article a list of specific questions and a forum we set up for further discussion. Kind Regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE NCC

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Abuse Contact Information - Policy Proposal
by Tobias Knecht 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hello, this proposal was planned to be published end of May. But so many people asked me to publish it earlier and hopefully before RIPE-60 in Praha, so I will. This proposal is more or less a copy of our proposals for AfriNIC and APNIC. The APNIC proposal will be acknowledged today. The AfriNIC proposal will be discussed in Kigali end of this month. I will not be able to come to RIPE-60, but I hope that this proposal finds a little spot to be discussed in the Anti-Abuse Working Group Meeting. If you have questions, ideas or anything else that could help, let me know. Thanks, Tobias -- | Tobias Knecht | CEO | abusix UG (haftungsbeschraenkt) | tk(a)abusix.com | http://abusix.com | Postfach 210127 | 76151 Karlsruhe | Germany | --- | Register of Companies(Handelsregister): HRB 707959 | District of Court(Amtsgericht) Mannheim/Germany | Registered Office: Karlsruhe/Germany | CEO: Tobias Knecht

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Updated Abuse Finder Tool available on RIPE Labs
by Mirjam Kuehne 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

[apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, About a month ago, we published the abuser finder tool that allows you to find abuser handler information more easily in the RIPE Database. In the meantime we received many good suggestions and comments. The new version of the abuse finder tool incorporates many of these suggestions (thanks to Paul Palse and his team) and is now available on the front page of RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/ (or you can use the direct link to the article: http://labs.ripe.net/content/updated-heuristics-abuse-finder-service ) Please also note the questions at the end of the article. We are looking forward to your feedback. Kind Regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE NCC

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Spam costs are huge!
by peter h 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

To understand the size of the problem i will compare the loss in man-days of a terrórist attack ( 9/11 ) with the loss of human time spam causes : 2100 lifes, est remaining lifettime 40 years will ad up to 30660000 man-days 5 spam per day, each taking 1 s of our time, this for 1 billion ( 1000000000 ) users will cost 21122685.5 mandays per year! I do not mean to reduce the impact of several thousend deat's, thats a huge number of tragic events. But we loose about the same amount of time dealing with spam IN ONE YEAR as the total loss of human time for all these victims ! How much effort is spent on terror-fighting ? How much is spent on spam-fighting ? Which will give us back the most time ? We need, in my opinion, to see the real size of the spam-problem and accept that we all need to contribute to eleminate the problem. Not just talk. Suggestions ? -- Peter Håkanson There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it again ... and again ... and again ... and again. ( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )

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