>So give up trying to control the actions of the end nodes by >destroying the edge. Make sure that complaints reach the correct >responsible person. Limit your involvement to careful excerpts from >your customer/IP-address database, or better yet, register them in >the RIR registry so that others having complaints can reach them >without wasting your time.
Intersting concept... MY upstream disagrees.. They, who shall remain nameless at this point, are doing a horrible job at policing their other customers, refuse to SWIP the block to me claiming they are working on it (been a year now), and they feel they need to know about whatever complaints they get about me. HMM, if they have gotten complaints, then I haven't gotten any!! And I have complained about other customers and never seen a fix.. One system was code red infected and had no FW, after a few weeks, I tracked them down and called them myself, and got told that <ISP> never called them!!! (I reported it 5 times) This is a great idea, but I very much doubt that most ISP's will even do it. And if ISP's did this.. NOTE the spammers, they would always lie about WHOIS, RWHOIS, contact info... I dunno, there is no perfect solution here... Except, as a community we need to enforce RIR policies and actual enforce our own AUP's. (NO shots being fired here, but as we all know some ISPs AUPs are like a law-- only effect the good citizen and not the high $ customer) just my 2c worth.. J
