RE: spammers will move offshore?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

The salient point here is that it's costing revenue.

There is only so much of my nose that I will cut off, before I
decide to live with my face.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On
Behalf Of
> Martin Cooper
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 12:31 PM
> To: Roeland M.J. Meyer
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: RE: spammers will move offshore?
>
>
>
> Roeland M.J. Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com> writes:
>
> > SPAM is a side-issue here and not really relevent to losing
> > connectivity with an entire continent.
>
> I don't know -- I think we could probably afford to lose
> connectivity to large parts of the APNIC database without
> major issues; it would probably halve the amount of SPAM
> we get and the amount of time wasted complaining about it
> to unresponsibe admins as well.
>
> M.