There are lots of ways to block inbound mail.  Read the documentation
for your MTA, and look at using procmail for local delivery.  Lots
of procmail-related resources for spam trapping.  Mostly, it depends
on the format of the spam they're sending.  If it's predicable, you
can probably block it.

If you believe there's been a violation of OpenSRS's policies, you
should probably take it up with OpenSRS directly.  I do note that
http://www.opensrs.org/Support_FAQ.shtml#AUP gives the impression
that OpenSRS doesn't take kindly to its services being advertised
illegally, but the ICANN documents referenced do not specifically
disallow use of spam to advertise registration services, they only
seem to talk about use of registration data.

And of course, the only link to an OpenSRS document points to a page
saying "This page has been replaced", which points to another page
saying "The contracts page has been moved", which points to the normal
contracts page.  The gTLD contract does have paragraph 10.1b which
says that no laws will be broken in the performance of the Agreement,
but I can find no specific mention of what sales tactics are considered
acceptable by OpenSRS.  From what I can see, the bulk of the legal
mumbo jumbo is in place to protect OpenSRS from liability, and not to
limit the actions of RSPs.

If you can demonstrate that Wideport.com/411.ca/411domains.ca/servak.net
has actually broken the law, then you might be able to get the venerable
Mr. Hutz to cancel the reseller agreement, but it wouldn't necessarily
shut them down, and there's always the chance that pointy-hair at Tucows
will quash the cancellation on the grounds that it's not a clear-cut
violation of the (now apparently nonexistent) AUP.

I would very much like to see OpenSRS maintain a zero-tolerance attitude
towards spamming by RSPs, and actually document it somewhere rather than
just having OpenSRS employees agree that spam is bad.

I look forward to hearing more about this.

p


On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:25:49PM -0500, Doctor PC - Brian O'Donnell wrote:
> 
> Any way to keep these spammers out of my inbox? All attempts to make them
> stop have failed. Short of resorting to something illegal, I don't know what
> to do.
> 
>  Wideport.com Inc.  o/a  411.ca
>  120 Eglinton AV E
>  1100
>  Toronto, ON M4P 1E2
>  CA
> 416-322-4843
> Steve Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Marie-Lynn Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> They have registered these names through OpenSRS:
> 411domains.ca
> 411.ca
> servak.net
> 

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