RE: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks?

[Scott Silzer]

That is exactly what was done to  to Futureway  a third party spammed 
for a site hosted by a downstream ISP and the result was there entire 
network begging blacklisted by SPEWS.

At 15:41 -0800 12/10/2002, David Schwartz wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:45:29 -0500, Scott Silzer wrote:
>
> > I could understand if an ISP was allowing spam from a portion of
> > there network.  But in this case the only thing that the ISP did is
> > host a website, the SPAM was sent from from a third party's network.
> > The ISP did terminate the customer but in the meantime the entire
> > NSP's network has been blacklisted, for a rouge webhosting account
> > does sound a bit harsh.
> 	A spam blocking service that worked that way would be 
> useless. Anyone could
> get any site they didn't like blacklisted simply by spamvertising it. Anyone
> who uses a spam blocking list that works that way is DoSing themselves.
>
> 	DS
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Scott A Silzer