At 06:36 AM 12/23/98 -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 08:27:54PM +1200, Joop Teernstra wrote:
>> At 08:17 21/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> >FYI: I just noticed new "relay" in one of my spam headers. Its
>> >called PROPAGATION.NET
>>
>> I have passed on the info to the domain policy list at InterNic and asked
>> them what their policy is, when this kind of thing is brought to their
>> attention.
>
>I can tell you what it is: *none whatsoever*. Based on a multi-year
>history, the InterNIC will not intervene in situations like this,
>even if the domain's information is obviously falsified, and even if the
>whole thing is obviously a spam setup. The InterNIC apparently feels
>that spammer's $70 registration fees are as good as anyone elses',
>and continues to allow well-known spammers to register domains.
>
>This is no surprise, of course: two of the major resource problems
>facing the net (IP address space exhaustion, unchecked proliferation
>of domain names in violation of InterNIC's stated one-organization,
>one-domain policy) are also the direct result of InterNIC greed.
Then we should do as I said, simply block all access to that
domain and possibly report it to their internet provider.
Many providers want to eliminate spammers so it might be worth a
try, right ?
Matt Soffen
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