Re: Spammers hapless fate = ISP toil and sweat

Are you suggesting that some of these guys are connected directly to the backbone and thus able to make BGP announcements?

I don't know whether they are or not. But the possibility should be entertained.

From a policy routing point of view, it's easier to filter our a whole AS rather than mess around with single address prefixes. This would make a good deterrant for spammers not to use BGP.

Nick