Hi, At 12:09 01.10.97 +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
Long term:
It doesn't solve it, but it helps it. One of the main problems is traceability. IE you don't know where the spam has come from. If noone third-party relayed, then when my users get spam, I'd know the IP address of the machine it came from originally. This would be good. Another necessary fix is for ISPs to keep record of which user had which IP address at any given time, and to keep contact details for all their users (this is desirable for secuirity and legal reasons too). If you build these two things together with a term in peering agreements that classifies spam abuse in a similar manner to the way most agreements currently classify security problems (i.e. mutual terms for traceability and action), and one hopes that similar terms are already in place in transit agreements, then one should be better able to get spammers removed.
But what, when there are laws, which disallow such loggins like IP Address <-> Username at a specific time for a long time ? Cu, sh -- Stephan Hermann, techn. Leiter Netzwerk u. Telekommunikation eMail: sh@nwu.de NWU Gesellschaft fuer Netzwerke und Telekommunikation mbH Tel.: +49-231-9860143 Heinrichstr. 51, 44536 Luenen FAX : +49-231-9860148