+1 On 19 Dec 2011, at 14:32, Thor Kottelin wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net [mailto:anti-abuse-wg- bounces@ripe.net] On Behalf Of russ@consumer.net Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 4:17 PM To: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net
I tried to respond to an e-mail from the network you ran and it was blocked. Your abuse desk told me other people on my netblock were spammers and I was supposed to go to my hosting provider and somehow make it stop. I had no idea (or power) to do anything about it and I had no idea what anyone else on the netblock was doing. When I ask for proof of the claims you never sent anything or explained further (although you did unblock me). These are some of the crazy stunts pulled by abuse departments that has no basis in law or common sense.
A network accepting mail from another network is extending the latter a privilege. It is extremely common sense to block networks from which spam or other abuse is detected. If you really would like to argue that such blocking is illegal, the burden of proof is on you.
-- Thor Kottelin http://www.anta.net/
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