Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 19:59:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: bminazzi@w3page.com (Blaine Minazzi) Cc: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com, rewt@i-Plus.net, paul@xciv.org, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMTP Relay probing - Should I follow up - advice? Message-ID: <199805260259.TAA03952@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <356A227A.9760E56@w3page.com> from Blaine Minazzi at "May 25, 98 08:01:30 pm"
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Blaine Minazzi wrote: > > number of these spammers are buying access from big spam providers who, in > > turn, buy access from large access providers, like alter.net, who just > > don't care as long as the check doesn't bounce. > > I have noticed a lot of crap originating from alter.net's downstream. > > Can we band together and dely all mail services to alter.net's > customers? > Or, maybe push other backbone providers to cancel the peering > arangements with them. if i remember correctly: ohhh, alter.net belongs to uu.net. uu.net belongs to world.com. world.com is merging with mci world.com was ~25% of the 'net in dec '97 per klaffy's talk at the 40th IETF. combine that will mci and it must be over 50%. dont wanna do that, i fear. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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