In general the organisations to whom one reports spam, UKIC aside, of
course, since they educate the spammer, seek to block the IP of the Internet
Service provider via whom the spam was issued.
The argument is that "depriving an ISP of service will ensure that they
remove the spammer" has some merit when looked at from the "spamfighter's
viewpoint". The challenge is that, unless one has one's own server and
"owns" one;s own IP address and range of IP addresses, innocent parties are
affected when an ISP's IP range is blocked. It is normal for a commercial
ISP to provide shared email services, after all.
BT Openworld was a good example of this in the Autumn, where the m@ps
blocklists encompassed tranches of BT Openworld IP space that innocent
people used.
Spamfighters in aggressive organisations such as SPEWS increasingly widen
the IP range blocked when the ISP does not respond, causing those of us who
go about our lawful business to complain to our ISP if we are affected.
SPEWS argues that by paying money to an ISP that harbours spammers we
support spam. They rely on our threat to remove our revenue from an ISP to
make it clean up its act.
But SPEWS goes even further. It says that, if an ISP has a website hosted
in its IP space that belongs to a "known or alleged spammer" then it will
blockade that ISP whether spam is issued from there or not. This results
IMHO in blackmail and coercion and creates resistance to spam elimination
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Julian Curmi
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:07 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Spam
The problem in reporting spam is that generally the IP address is dynamic
and therefore very difficult to block.
J:)
Malta
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