In message <199709181044.LAA19136@beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie>, Nick Hilliard writ es:
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.
And for ISPs not to host them. So far, all the spammers I have had to deal with have been hosted under AGIS, although a few of them use random dial-in accounts for actually sending their spam. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."