Re: [Semi-OT,important] ORBS globally blocks users of these lists

From: Blu3Viper (david@killerlabs.com)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 20:35:51 EST


On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> > No. The policy is not needed. It is needed that you can track down
> > spammers and make them pay, and you can track open relay and have them
> > pay as well, since they helped the spammer.
>
> You understood that it's not possible, right ? The only way to make someone
> pay here (in Russia) is come to him with big gun - it's almost impossible to
> do via court even in FAR more obvious situations. And Russia is not the only
> such place in the world.
>
> In ideal world ORBS is not needed and perhaps even amoral. Unfortunatelly we
> do not live in ideal world :-(

Should we then blacklist all .ru email because nothing else can be done in
recourse to any spam originating from there? Sound pretty drastic? It's
not too far off the netblock blacklist policy.

-d

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