Re: [wg-review] A Reply to Miles B. Whitener... Re: The owners of "the Internet" must manage it for their own benefit

[Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>]

Robin Miller wrote:
 
> Nothing irritates me more than US Grade A Spam clogging my mailbox. ...

Lessons in spam prevention and in tracking down spammers:
http://www.rahul.net/falk/#howtos

A list of the major spam vendors. Everyone with the time and skill should
kill one of these sites a week as a public service:
http://www.spamhaus.org/

> In a lot of countries, one pays by the minute for downloading email. ...
> 
> Spam also causes great strain on mail servers. ...
> 
> So thats why I'm anti-spam - its worse than just clogging your mailbox like a
> junk flyer, from an Internet perspective. Spammers are costing networks money,
> lots of it sometimes. Lots of Net admins see that as theft, and I don't really
> blame them. ...

There's a traditional among system admins, that they will deal with abuse /of/
the net (such as spam) but will not try to handle abuse /on/ the net (e.g. rude
or libelous postings). They have neither the competence nor the authority to
decide on those and the legal system has a long history of doing so.

You can easily make a case that ICANN should do likewise. I find it ludicrous
that URDP attempts to deal with trademark issues, basically irrelevant to the
functioning of the net and already protected by the legal system, while not
containing any requirement to disconnect spammers.

Of course, given examples like bodacioustatas.com (see the bodacioustatas.org
or bodacioustatas.net for the history) I wouldn't trust ICANN to handle an
anti-spam DRP right either.
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