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Old Nick wrote:
On Sat, 01 May 2004 14:14:25 GMT, "Carli Groven"
vaguely proposed a theory
......and in reply I say!:
remove ns from my header address to reply via email

Wha???

Well at least you weren't rude anout it.

It's fairly simple actually.

There are sites that allow you report spam, not just block it and hope
it goes away. They then report to the Source ISPs and ins some cases
the stuff gets stopped.

I feel we should support them.
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I believe you were talking about MyNe****chman specificly. I wouldn't bother
with them. As one of those on the "source ISP" end of things, we get notices
from them often and they are useless. They report that someone with foo
address tried to make a connection to baz address on this date. There isn't
enough information in the reports to determine what was happening and why,
so it gets ignored. Requests for more information from MyNe****chman were
also never answered.

MyNe****chman doesn't seem to have any standards for how the firewalls it
allows to report problems are configured. People just put them into ultra
paranoid/delusioinal mode and report away. In this situation, a single
mistyped address results in a flurry of reports back to the source ISP. I
doubt any ISP takes these guys seriously.

I wouldn't waste my money on them.

-- Joe

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Joseph M. Krzeszewski Network Operations
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