RE: Unplugging spamming PCs

["Larry Pingree" <lpingree () juniper net>]

        But if you telnet from an IP that is not registered, you would
be denied. Thus at least eliminating many of the erroneous email servers
out there on the DSL, dial-up and other broadband connections, this has
been tried in the open with such things as MABS RBL, etc by blocking
common spamming IP's and mail servers. But since it is not mandatory, it
falls apart too easily.

LP
 
Best Regards,
 
Larry
 
Larry Pingree

"Visionary people, are visionary, partly because of the great many
things they never get to see." - Larry Pingree


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Hamelin [mailto:nethead () gmail com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 5:26 PM
To: Larry Pingree
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Unplugging spamming PCs

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:40:23 -0700, Larry Pingree <lpingree () juniper net>
wrote:

> I agree with you it's a hard problem to solve. But unless there is
> mandatory cooperation within mail server software (which can be
> monitored) to interface with a registry of acceptable/registered
sites,
> then this model could work. 

I can telnet to a mailserver and send mail to that host without much
thought.  What good will a registry do?  What will solve spam is
getting some of these virus writers to actually write some code that
will trash disks of poorly patched (if a at all) hosts.  Let Darwin
take over.

-Joe