Re: Spammer mining WHOIS

From: Ross Wm. Rader (ross@tucows.com)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 20:00:35 EDT


> If there are enough complaints from resellers about their customers
> being spammed by one particular company, would OpenSRS take action
> against that company?

Every Monday morning I sit down with my coffee and a list of IP addresses
that are generating an inordinate number of whois queries.

Then I add them to our blackhole.

I want us to address this proactively. Once the list of names and addresses
is out there in the hands of miscreants, there's no bringing the mailing
lists back into our barn.

Sort of like our blacklist. Once you get on it, there's not much chance that
you'll get off.

And, we can only deal with whats in our power to deal with. Sometimes its
not always that cut and dried, but we try to do the right thing where we
can.

                     -rwr

Got Blog? http://www.byte.org

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of
thought which they seldom use."
 - Soren Kierkegaard



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Tue Oct 19 2004 - 23:37:43 EDT